Business students learn economics but they need more than that.… 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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Rawls, Habermas and Bobbio in an Age of War 
Mar 3rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In era of serial war, three theorists of a perpetual peace. … Read the rest
Johnson and the Women
Mar 2nd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Despite dog on hind legs remark, Johnson had clever women for friends.… Read the rest
Victory for Muffled Women
Mar 2nd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Shabina Begum wins right to wear concealing clothes.… Read the rest
Yet More on WomenandMathandNatureandCulture
Mar 2nd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Useful look at several studies.… Read the rest
Supreme Court Rules Against Execution of Juveniles
Mar 2nd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Supreme Court ruled against capital punishment for crimes committed before age 18.… Read the rest
Hume and the Deep-fried Mars Bar
Mar 1st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Slightly parochial review of new biography.… Read the rest
Voltaire Feared Boredom, not Inconsistency
Mar 1st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He was like Nancy Mitford, Michael Moore, Susan Sontag, Toad of Toad Hall.… Read the rest
On Stephen Greenblatt
Mar 1st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is he an apostate of Theory?… Read the rest
Paley’s New Clothes
Mar 1st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Niall Shanks looks at both biological and cosmological arguments for Intelligent Design.… Read the rest
Joseph Carroll’s Literary Darwinism
Mar 1st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Debunking puffery of postmodernists and sly misrepresentations of Stephen Jay Gould.… Read the rest
‘Christian Voice’ Plans to Target Abortion Clinics
Feb 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Because women should be indoors under authority of father then husband.… Read the rest
Who is This ‘Christian Voice’ Gang?
Feb 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Tiny group gets attention by being absurd.… Read the rest
Camus and Sartre: Friendship and Influence
Feb 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sartre the philosopher who dabbled in literature, Camus the writer who dabbled in philosophy.… Read the rest
Roy Hattersley Reviews Book on T H Green
Feb 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘The Labour party has always been short of philosophers’; Green is essential reading.… Read the rest
Review of Isaac Deutscher’s Trotsky Biography
Feb 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
How to read it when mass secular leftist movements no longer propel dreams of social justice?… Read the rest
In the Internet Age We Are All at Harvard for Life
Feb 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Public pressure is powerful, but not necessarily useful.… Read the rest
What Were Einstein and Gödel Talking About?
Feb 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘There can never be surprises in logic,’ but Gödel’s incompleteness theorems were a surprise.… Read the rest
Gender, Brains, Expectations, Numbers
Feb 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Studies show brain differences, also that beliefs affect test performance.… Read the rest
Watch Out! Stop Eating! Throw Up!
Feb 27th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Everything is dangerous, everything is toxic, there is no safe level, we’re all doomed.… Read the rest
