People on the Left who despise liberalism, reason, science, progress, and the Enlightenment.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Oprah Winfrey is Promoting a Vaccine Skeptic
Jenny McCarthy’s campaign spreads misinformation that could bring back once-controlled diseases.
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Melanie Phillips is All ‘It’s a Secular Inquisition!’
Everyone who said she was wrong about ID is so totally wrong.
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Martin on Fish on Eagleton on God
In the new war against Enlightenment liberalism, pro-faith Marxists and post-modern relativists unite.
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ASA Ruling on Duchy Originals: Complaint Upheld
The ad must not appear again in its current form. Duchy told not to make claims they could not substantiate.
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Reproof to Costly Duchy Detox Tinctures
Regulator found Duchy advert breached the code in substantiation, truthfulness and medicinal claims.
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Stuck With ‘National Prayer Day’
US Congress in 1988 set date for presidents to issue proclamations asking Americans to pray.
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Maine Governor Signs Gay Marriage Bill
Maine’s Senate voted 21-13 in support of a bill that redefines marriage as the legal union of two people.
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Martha Nussbaum: Islamic Liberalism Under Fire
Liberal values are not tepid and centrist, but truly radical in a world of violence and quasi–fascist forces.
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Ali Eteraz: Pakistan is Already an Islamic State
Pakistan’s flawed constitutional framework forces citizens to refer to their views on life through the lens of ‘Islam.’
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David Bromwich on the Persistence of Empire
We love the idea that we are good; that we have and practice the best way of life.
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Why Do People Prefer Faith to Thought?
The great discoveries were not made by those agog at the wonders of the divine, but by those intrigued by the wonders of the mundane.
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Carl Zimmer on Flu Genes Furiously Evolving
The current outbreak shows how complex and mysterious the evolution of viruses is.
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Rosenhouse on Fish on Eagleton on God
‘Now here comes that most odius and content-free New York Times columnist, Stanley Fish…’
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Holbo on Fish on Eagleton on God
Don’t they teach irony in the English department any more? Holbo thinks they should.
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Myers on Eagleton on God
Ditchkins has made the ghastly error of failing to write The Eagleton Delusion or Eagleton Is Not Great.
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Media Can’t Resist a Good Panic Story
The problem is, there is no panic story.
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Cognitive Science for Teachers
Abstract thinking is not something our brains are designed to be good at or to enjoy.
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Who Would Be Female Under Islamic Law?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is the kind of Muslim woman who maddens reactionary Muslim men and their asinine female followers.
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Delara Darabi: Oh Mother, I Can See the Noose
Rights groups inside and outside Iran reacted with horror as news of the secret hanging seeped out.