HRW calls this a chilling development.… Read the rest
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
Susan Sontag’s Notebooks 
Sep 13th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘My image of myself since age 3 or 4 — the genius-schmuck.’… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on Marginalia
Sep 13th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Too bad Stanley Milgram didn’t annotate Studies in the Scope and Method of ‘The Authoritarian Personality’.… Read the rest
Review of Ian Buruma on Theo van Gogh Murder
Sep 12th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
His treatment of Islamism is all the more damning for being less shrill.… Read the rest
Seyran Ates is Staying
Sep 12th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Paraphrase of German article pending news in English.… Read the rest
Sie gibt nicht auf
Sep 12th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Eine zivilisierte Gesellschaft ist ohne Menschen wie Seyran Ates arm.’ Yes it is.… Read the rest
Alan Wolfe on Michael Bérubé’s New Book
Sep 12th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Leading conservatives don’t send their children to Pepperdine if they can get into Harvard instead.… Read the rest
Goat Forced to Marry Man
Sep 11th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Rape victim handed over to perp.… Read the rest
Women Protest Segregation in Grand Mosque
Sep 11th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘The proposal was made by a panel of men.’ Surprise!… Read the rest
It Seems Women Are Always in the Way
Sep 11th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They have to be pushed to the side so that their presence does not irritate, annoy or distract – men.… Read the rest
‘What Happened in Rwanda, it Will Happen Here’
Sep 11th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“If these soldiers leave,” Sheik Ali said, “we will all be slaughtered.” … Read the rest
Fred Halliday on the Left and the Jihad
Sep 11th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
History is being rewritten, the language of political argument adjusted to accommodate this new accommodation. … Read the rest
Martin Amis on the Age of Horrorism
Sep 10th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
All men are not my brothers, because all women are my sisters.… Read the rest
Priest Makes Bomb Threat to Stop Madonna
Sep 10th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Compassion, mercy, charity in action.… Read the rest
Nick Cohen on Research into Forgiveness
Sep 10th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Vicars practice what they preach but churchgoers were as likely to want revenge as unbelievers.… Read the rest
Ignatieff: Prodigal Son or Martian Outsider?
Sep 10th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘There’s a difference between weekend jaunts and the rootless existence of an incurable cosmopolitan.’… Read the rest
Terry Glavin on Michael Ignatieff
Sep 10th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He understands politics as tragedy, as a matter of always having to choose the lesser evil.… Read the rest
George Alagiah Sees Tensions in Multiculturalism
Sep 9th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Institutionalised tolerance for diversity may have led to institutional indifference to separation.… Read the rest
Rights Trump Culture and Religion
Sep 9th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Maryam Namazie calls cultural relativism a prescription for inaction and passivity in the face of oppression.… Read the rest
‘Iconoclasts’ on the Philosophy of Peter Singer
Sep 9th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Singer, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Kenan Malik, Andrew Linzey debate. … Read the rest
