Maryam Namazie’s obscurity remains baffling. She ought to be a liberal poster girl.… 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
October Bulletin from Middle East Women 
Oct 16th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
News related to women’s rights from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Australia, Germany, more.… Read the rest
Laura Bush and Identity Politics
Oct 16th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It’s sexist and elitist to think Harriet Miers is not ideal Supreme Court nominee.… Read the rest
Henry Adams as Superannuated Pest
Oct 16th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Garry Wills has set out to retire the malarial old crank and to re-claim the younger man.… Read the rest
Study Links Young Parents, Aggressive Children
Oct 16th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Critics worry about ‘demonising’ teenage parents.… Read the rest
Hizb ut-Tahrir Using Anti-racist Front Organization
Oct 16th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hizb ut-Tahrir has been recruiting under the name Stop Islamophobia at UCL and other institutions. … Read the rest
Delusions Come in Waves
Oct 15th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Mumbo-Jumbo confronts hydra-headed threat to intellectual and scientific foundations.… Read the rest
A Scientific Theory is Not a Guess
Oct 15th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A scientific theory is a machine that produces sensible explanations. … Read the rest
Adam Smith Students Change Name
Oct 15th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Newly named Jennie Lee College Students’ Association refuses to use Smith’s name in correspondence. … Read the rest
Students Drop Bad Role Model Smith
Oct 15th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘This isn’t an attack upon Adam Smith as a person.’ Whew!… Read the rest
Mixed Reviews of Pinter Nobel
Oct 15th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Stoppard, Frayn, Hitchens, Redgrave C.… Read the rest
UN Withdraws Non-essential Staff From Darfur
Oct 15th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Increase in violence has made most of west Darfur off-limits to aid agencies. … Read the rest
Iranian Women Bloggers
Oct 15th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Why don’t women in villages ‘endanger Islam’ by not wearing the hijab?… Read the rest
Roger Scruton: Democracy or Theocracy?
Oct 15th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Secular government is the sine qua non of democracy, and theocracy is its natural opponent.… Read the rest
The Prospect List is a Stupid List
Oct 15th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It’s not about the best or the most important public intellectuals, but the most famous ones.… Read the rest
Battle Between Enlightenment and Medievalism
Oct 14th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Religious thinking still permeates public life as the religious occupy positions of power.… Read the rest
Bouyeri, Hofstad Network, Burqa Ban
Oct 14th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Acting out of ‘religious conviction’ is not necessarily problem-free.… Read the rest
Liberals Must Return to Their Paleo-liberal Roots
Oct 14th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There’s a faction on the left whose sympathies lie with nostalgic fascists. … Read the rest
Gray on Grayling on Descartes
Oct 14th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Shows Descartes to be more interesting than the closeted introvert in standard histories of philosophy.… Read the rest
EU Official Has Lunch With Orhan Pamuk
Oct 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Pamuk was charged under law forbidding calling Armenian genocide ‘genocide’.… Read the rest
