White liberals have dismissed intellectuals critical of their ancestral cultures as inauthentic.… 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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Two Thirds Oppose State Aided ‘Faith Schools’ 
Oct 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Guardian/ICM poll shows 64% agree ‘the government should not be funding faith schools of any kind’.… Read the rest
Miers Withdraws Supreme Court Candidacy
Oct 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bush complains about senatorial expectation of seeing relevant documents.… Read the rest
Chomsky Pro and Con
Oct 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Courageous intellectual giant or destructive rhetorical manipulator?… Read the rest
Yale Gives Boot to IWW Anthropologist
Oct 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Yale has refused to explain why anthropology department did not renew contract.… Read the rest
Bush Reinstates Davis-Bacon Act
Oct 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
White House bowed to pressure from moderate House Republicans, restored wage protection.… Read the rest
Bush Seeks CIA Exemption from Ban on Cruelty
Oct 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Human Rights Watch not pleased.… Read the rest
BHA Alarmed at Expansion of Religious Schools
Oct 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Large ‘faith-based’ trusts to take over schools currently free from a religious ethos. … Read the rest
Links Between B’ham Riots and ‘Faith’ Schools?
Oct 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Segregating children according to parents’ superstitions a great way to create a volatile, violent town.… Read the rest
Steven Fuller Testifies
Oct 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
ACLU official takes thorough notes; Fuller says interesting things…… Read the rest
Postmodernism Is
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What happens after you’ve been modern so long that ‘being modern’ doesn’t seem all that special.… Read the rest
Vote to Amend Religious Hatred Bill
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Peers voted to amend law to introduce safeguards protecting freedom of speech.… Read the rest
US Secularists Hire a Lobbyist
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She has an uphill battle when both parties compete for ‘most pious’ title.… Read the rest
Iran Bans Foreign Films, Corrupt Western Culture
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Elements named as affronts to Muslim culture included secularists and feminists.… Read the rest
The ‘Muslim Community’ a European Invention
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Europeans make huge assumptions when they lump all Muslim immigrants together, persistently and unreflectively.… Read the rest
UK Sociologist Testifies in ID Case, Cites Behe
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Cards are stacked against radical, innovative views getting a fair hearing in science these days.’… Read the rest
Wot’s a Dead Chicken Want With a Teddy Bear?
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Or flowers? Who knows, but it’s safe in the arms of Jesus, so that’s good.… Read the rest
Flowers, Tributes Left for Recent Egg
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Well-wishers left bunches of flowers at the scene, along with cards and teddy bears.… Read the rest
Makeshift Shrine in Memory of Dear Baby Chicken
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
People of Oakfield Road decline to believe chicken is chicken.… Read the rest
Docudrama and its Discontents
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If ‘causing distress’ is an argument for censorship, why restrict yourself to fiction, or fictionalisation? … Read the rest
