The Taliban have made the 1.7 million people of Swat hostage, and the people continue to suffer.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Strunk and White Are a Terrible Influence
The grammatical advice is so inaccurate that counterexamples often show up on the very same page.
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John Hope Franklin’s Moral and Intellectual Poise
Franklin, a model to generations of scholars, students, and activists, had few peers.
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André Glucksmann on Postmodern Capitalism
Our age is the first to proclaim the power to reduce risk to zero simply by spreading it around.
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Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel on Rawls
How Rawls’s political philosophy was influenced by his religion.
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Samina Yasmeen on the Taliban in Pakistan
Women’s rights are violated frequently and often without much notice from the public.
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Bishop Insists: the Resurrection is Real
It really really really happened. We know this.
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Catholic Archbishop Talks the Usual Dreck
The pope was defending African women, it’s a sensitive point, I’m not going to answer your question.
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A N Wilson Talks the Extraordinary Dreck
Sneer, sneer, sneer, sneer, I’m better than they are, sneer.
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Johann Hari on What-aboutery
The best way to respond is to state a simple truth: there can be more than one bad thing in the world.
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Jonathan Turley on Laws Against ‘Religious Hatred’
They’re a bad idea.
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Tennessee: Tornado Kills Woman and Baby
Survivors rush to thank God for sparing them.
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Tony Blair Should Shut Up About the Church
Given his commitment to female equality, what does he really think of a church that bans women priests?
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Blair Talks of ‘His Spiritual Side’
He believes that expanding faith school provision helped to foster inter-faith relations.
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Transcending Madeleine Bunting
Bunting argues all systems of thought rely on myth. Not all of them do. One in particular: thinking.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on ‘Fresh Air’
The president of Liberia talks to Terry Gross.
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Michael Ruse on ‘Darwinism’ and Christianity
If a parent objects to what a child is being taught in science class, the teaching is religious and unconstitutional.
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What’s New About New Atheism?
The more clerics rely on arguments based on religious claims, the more those claims will be challenged.
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A Telephone to God
But you have to leave a message. No reports of God calling back yet.
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Telling the Truth About the Armenian Genocide
‘Not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence.’