Category: Latest News
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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A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Why is violence against women acceptable?
Bruce Gorton asks.
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Haredi women and feminism
Haredi women are the breadwinners, but don’t talk to them about feminism.
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India: prominent scholar murdered
Police suspect the involvement of Hindu extremists in the murder of Dr Malleshappa M Kalburgi, former Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi.
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IS beheads antiquities scholar in Palmyra
Khaled Asaad, 82-year-old scholar who worked for over 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra, was executed by IS on Tuesday.
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Bangladesh: atheist blogger hacked to death
Niloy Neel was hacked to death by a gang armed with machetes in Dhaka.
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Alom Shaha on why non-belief needs diversity
Encountering diversity can help us realise the possibility of being someone new, someone different, someone better.
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Boston Globe reviews Plato at the Googleplex
Goldstein’s ventriloquism allows Plato to serve as a foil for the preoccupations of the 21st century.
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Slate reviews Plato at the Googleplex
“Plato on Cable News” has him exchanging blows with a bloviating Bill O’Reilly clone named Roy McCoy.
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Martin Robbins on the return of Bora Zivkovic
‘Not sexually harassing women’ is not optional; it’s not a ‘bonus extra’ in the job description.
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Universities UK withdraws advice on gender segregation
UUK has withdrawn guidance on the gender segregation of audiences in lectures and debates after the prime minister said it should not be allowed to happen.
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Martin Pribble on leaving the online atheist “community”
The times of satisfaction are outweighed by feelings of frustration and hopelessness.
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Turkey sentences atheist blogger to jail
Sevan Nisanyan accused a Turkish court of issuing a “politically-motivated” verdict after it sentenced him to jail on charges of illegal construction.
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The Homeschool Apostates
They were raised to carry the fundamentalist banner forward and redeem America, but now the Joshua Generation is rebelling.
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Sara Khan on gender segregation and inequality
Segregation perpetuates discriminatory social norms and practices, shaping male attitudes about women and restricting the decisions and choices of women.
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John Hawks on the new skull from Dmanisi
The essential claim: the shape variation among these four Dmanisi crania is approximately the same as the shape variation among all East African early Homo.
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In Theresa May’s surreal world, feelings trump facts
When the European Commission asked Britain for proof that sly continentals were sneaking into our hospital beds, Whitehall replied that its demand for hard facts was an affront.
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Ofsted report on Al-Madinah school in Derby
Inadequate in all categories.
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Udo Schuklenk responds to some myths about atheism
The probabilities are vanishingly low for the God proposition.