Creating a link between protecting groups of people and protecting their beliefs.… 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Law School Dean Warns of Religious Influence 
Jun 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Faith challenges underpinnings of legal education.… Read the rest
Carlin Romano on Lying Cheating Philosophers
Jun 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Semi-official commitment to truth entails some integrity.… Read the rest
Project Zero Encourages Students to Think
Jun 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Good idea, let’s hope it has legs.… Read the rest
Review of Simon Blackburn on Truth
Jun 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Take postmodernist inverted commas off things that ought to matter to us: truth, reason, objectivity and confidence.… Read the rest
Russell Jacoby on Higher Education
Jun 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Best schools once promised alternative to selfish materialism but now proudly offer exactly that.… Read the rest
Aren’t You Sorry You Missed Luce Irigaray?
Jun 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Remaining only in sameness or impersonal neutrality leads either to paralysis or to uncontrollable acceleration.… Read the rest
Murdered Nun Had Argued With Priest
Jun 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Was locked up with no food or water for four days before crucifixion.… Read the rest
Gödel was Irked by Wittgenstein
Jun 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Rebecca Goldstein on Gödel and Einstein, super-realism and Platonism.… Read the rest
Alan Wolfe on Jews, Assimilation, and Identity
Jun 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Assimilation and influence, identity and isolation.… Read the rest
Marx Out in Front
Jun 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Wittgenstein second. Wheen applauds, Blackburn and Grayling have doubts.… Read the rest
Nicholas Kristof Phones Mukhtaran
Jun 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She is free, but her passport is still confiscated.… Read the rest
Words Matter, Differences Matter, Truth Matters
Jun 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Pavel Litvinov notes: exaggeration for the sake of attention is a bad move.… Read the rest
What’s All the Fuss About?
Jun 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Romanian nun dies in ‘exorcism’; common practice, priest says.… Read the rest
Eve Garrard Asks: Why is Israel Singled Out?
Jun 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It’s no good saying ‘Because we think it’s worse’ – that’s a circular argument.… Read the rest
Sally Satel on ‘The Ethical Brain’
Jun 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Untangling how we arrive at moral and ethical judgments. … Read the rest
Michael Ruse Eyes the ‘Slippery Slope’
Jun 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Darwinism’ a threat to belief in a caring omnipotent deity.… Read the rest
Amartya Sen on the Argumentative Indian
Jun 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Indians are not all ‘spiritual.’… Read the rest
Sartre Wanted to Be Both Spinoza and Stendhal
Jun 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Easy and tempting to mock Sartre as poseur and hypocrite.… Read the rest
Martha Nussbaum on Henry Sidgwick
Jun 18th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Insistence on ‘point of view of the Universe’ not as obtuse as had been thought.… Read the rest
