What is truly disturbing about this book’s huge commercial success is that it attests to the prevalence of unreason among vast numbers of Americans.
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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Official fired because two women did not wear niqab
“Women do not appear in public without wearing a burka and niqab in an Islamic country like Afghanistan,” one official said.
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Top priority for Afghanistan
The war? Poverty? Schools, roads, hospitals? Ravening Islamists? Corruption? Incompetence? Of course not. It’s naked female heads.
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Documentation in McGuire case
“The more the Jesuits learned about McGuire’s problems, the harder they worked to cover them up.”
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Suit says Jesuits ignored warnings about priest
Lots of warnings, over a period of four decades.
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It’s not just “neocons” who criticize arrests at Oda TV
The police raid of the news website, a fierce critic of the ruling Justice and Development Party further fueled debate on freedom of the press in Turkey.
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Turkish journalist defends Turkish press freedom
Last year, the same journalist faced jail for criticising the courts.
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“Why feminists are less religious”
Don’t worry; they’re more spiritual, so it’s ok.
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Thai women resort to home abortions
A Thai government crackdown on illegal abortion clinics has seen women turn to drugs bought over the internet.
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Libyan woman who claimed rape is being sued
“The boys she accused are bringing a case against her because it’s a very grave offense to accuse someone of a sexual crime,” said a government spokesman.
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Muslim Brotherhood has a great new idea
Women-only buses. Brilliant!
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Roberto De Mattei responds to his critics
“The attacks on me are a typical example of the relativistic dictatorship denounced by Benedict XVI.” Srsly.
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Bruce Everett on masculine self-pity in cartoonists
You’ll know nanotechnology has matured as a field when it finally creates the violin small enough to play an appropriate lament.
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Demo against Europe’s last dictator
Index on Censorship organized the march against Lukashenko and for freedom of expression in Belarus.
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Hitchens files again
It is morally unthinkable that Qaddafi should emerge from this episode with even a rag of authority to call his own, and it is morally feeble not to say so out loud.
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Who are the Libyan rebels?
“We want democracy, good schools, a free media, an end to corruption, a private sector, and a parliament to get rid of whoever, whenever, we want.” -
What Egypt can learn from Palestine
Democracy properly understood means constitutional guarantees that are not easily nullified by a ruling party and safeguards on the rights of minorities and women.
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LSE hired Nir Rosen after NYU forced him to resign
One LSE source said: “It’s an unbelievable appointment.” Rosen has now resigned from LSE.
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The world as it should be
Men in front, doing all the talking; women in back, wearing black tents, silent.