Foreign minister explained: ‘Any foreigner who comes to criticize our country will be immediately expelled.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
-
Mary Warnock Urges: Legalize Assisted Suicide
We have a moral obligation to take other people’s seriously reached decisions with regard to their own lives equally seriously.
-
Meera Nanda on the God Delusion in Action
Something amiss in the way ‘modern’ Indians encounter the products of science with a medieval worldview.
-
From Burke to Palin
Conservative writers find that the anti-intellectualism their side encouraged has begun to consume their movement.
-
Tauriq Moosa on Being an Ex-Muslim
‘I attended seven madrassas. At each one, I was physically abused by the jaded jackals of god’s word.’
-
Greenspan ‘Shocked’ to Find His Ideology Flawed
Greenspan said he was in ‘a state of shocked disbelief’ about banks’ inability to regulate themselves.
-
UN Seminar to Discuss Limits to Free Speech
Pakistan, Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia and the OIC representative called for tighter restrictions.
-
At the Seminar
Diene: Freedom of Expression is politically instrumantalised to propagate racist platforms.
-
Center for Inquiry Joins Debate at UN HRC
CFI and IHEU sponsored a discussion on restrictions to free inquiry into religious matters at the HRC.
-
Nesrine Malik on Death for Apostasy
Death penalty not gratuitously applied; scholars differ; death threat evoked rarely; all okay then.
-
Is There a Clash of Civilizations?
CFI proposes an alternative to UN Alliance of Civilizations, one rooted in secular, liberal values.
-
Millennium Development Summit: No Women
24 speakers, every one a man. One of the Millennium Goals is gender equality. Oh well.
-
Michael Walzer on Possible Foreign Policy
If Obama is elected, how will American foreign policy change?
-
Ronald Aronson Replies to ‘The New Atheists’
Let’s all oppose claims of absolute knowledge, and those who would impose their claims on others.
-
Review of ‘Philosophy and Real Politics’
To introduce a note of realism into philosophical debates about justice, by force if necessary.
-
Higher Education in the US
A majority of the students whom colleges admit are grossly underprepared.
-
The Atheist Bus Campaign
There’s probably no God; now stop worrying and enjoy your life. Any more fares please.
-
Susan Neiman on Morality and Religion
Whatever the source of moral judgment is, it isn’t divine authority.
-
UN Engineer Killed in Somalia
Intelligence sources say the assassination of aid workers by trained killers has become the norm.
-
Humanitarian Workers are Targeted
Deliberately killing humanitarian workers is an outrage which we don’t denounce enough.
