Jirga unanimously decided not to allow women voters to come to polling stations. … 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Women Barred in Order to Maintain Law and Order 
Aug 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Traditionally, our women have always stayed away from elections and they are not even ready to step out of their homes.’… Read the rest
Let’s Not Share
Aug 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Going to a poetry workshop when you hate workshops, groups, groupthink…… Read the rest
Should Philosophers Review Philosophy?
Aug 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
And historians history, novelists novels? Or should they swap?… Read the rest
Pope Seeks Promise of Immunity
Aug 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Texas lawsuit accuses him of conspiring to cover up molestation of three boys by seminarian.… Read the rest
From the Ridiculous to the More Ridiculous
Aug 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Australian witch sues under religious hatred law.… Read the rest
Different Version of Menezes Shooting Leaked
Aug 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
No padded jacket, no vaulting the barrier, no fleeing the police.… Read the rest
Elephants to Return to Wyoming?
Aug 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Who knew they’d left?… Read the rest
Controversy Over US Drug Adverts
Aug 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Over-selling the benefits and under-selling the risks.… Read the rest
Houzan Mahmoud on Women in Iraq
Aug 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Women in Iraq are being pushed into a corner and the constitution is likely to keep them trapped there.… Read the rest
12% of Iraqis Approve Female Equality
Aug 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
69% say women’s rights okay unless they contradict Islam.… Read the rest
The Fury of Creationists Scorned
Aug 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Re-fighting the Scopes trial eighty years later.… Read the rest
Slavoj Zizek Says Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
Aug 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is not the ‘war on terror’ proof that ‘terror’ is the antagonistic Other of democracy?… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on Political Theory Daily Review
Aug 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Volume of material logged each day suggests it is run by a collective of gnomes.… Read the rest
Wal-Mart and ‘Family Values’
Aug 17th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Women can be president, Jon Stewart, no; O’Reilly, Left Behind, Protocols of Elders of Zion, yes.… Read the rest
Majority of UK Muslims Follow a Liberal Islam
Aug 16th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
And do not consider the MCB representative, says Dr Shaaz Mahboob.… Read the rest
Replies to Hattersley
Aug 16th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Taking any religion seriously is in nobody’s real interests.’… Read the rest
Ian Hacking on Steven Rose on the Brain
Aug 16th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Consciousness, memory, phantom trees, Locke, Damasio, Leibniz.… Read the rest
Three Books on Truth
Aug 16th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Simon Blackburn, Harry Frankfurt, Laura Penny.… Read the rest
‘Flexible’ Labour Plan
Aug 16th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Provoke strike, fire workers, hire cheaper ones. What larks.… Read the rest
