Stories by Madeleine Bunting

Exposed Literary Fraud Reveals Lengths Americans Take to Deceive Themselves to Justify War and Intervention

Posted on Apr 22, 2011, Source: The Guardian

Greg Mortenson's wild Pakistan tale exposes more than just a literary BS artist – it reveals Americans' delusion about their 'civilising' mission in Af-Pak.

Men Are Not Hardwired for Infidelity: Why Does Pop Culture Insist on Biological Differences Between the Sexes?

Posted on Nov 15, 2010, Source: Comment Is Free

Grasping after certainty about gender roles has fostered some bad science and stereotyping that harms both sexes.

Are the 'New Atheists' Actually Doing Anything to Stop the Ills of Religion?

Posted on Apr 8, 2010, Source: Comment Is Free

Is the New Atheism just a publishing phenomenon? What have all these books, these tons of paper and felled forests achieved?

Willful Ignorance: Who Will Face the Music for the Horrors Unleashed in Iraq?

Posted on Nov 6, 2007, Source: Comment Is Free

The Iraq war is an abject failure of democracy: governments have not been held accountable for their criminality.

Does Our Planet Have Too Many People?

Posted on Sep 12, 2007, Source: Comment Is Free

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.