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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain Conference
Nearly 300 people met to discuss apostasy, the freedom to criticise religion, Sharia and civil society.
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Tom Frank on Norman Mailer on ’68 Convention
The Hemingwayesque tough-guy egotism is the price for the incomparable description and insight.
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Unleashing the Barbarians
The Republican Party’s strategy of stoking fear thrives as a postmodern pastiche of conservative hate speech.
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Interview With Paul Offitt
A doctor defends scientific research against the potentially fatal misperceptions of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Plumbers Disavow Joe
Union plumbers are not impressed by Joe the plumber.
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Eric Foner on the Role of Reconstruction
Today Reconstruction is viewed as a noble if flawed experiment, a forerunner of the modern struggle for racial justice.
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Anne Applebaum on Human Smoke
Baker has used his license as a ‘novelist’ to excuse himself from all the tedious work of genuine knowledge.
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Grayling on Ex-Muslims Conference
With Maryam Namazie, Ibn Warraq, Joan Smith, Richard Dawkins, Mina Ahadi, and more.
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Ohanian’s Mistakes
He seems unable to relate any incident in Einstein’s life without giving it a negative (or even poisonous) spin.
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Jesus and Mo Get the Hots for Sarah Palin
Their sexual innuendo skills are a bit lacking though.
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Lawrence M. Krauss on Point of Inquiry
He talks about the misuse of quantum physics in the New Age movement, and more.
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Atheist Joking
Christianity makes insolently extraordinary claims but produces terrible apologists.
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Imran Ahmad on C S Lewis and Narnia
‘It’s enough to turn anyone into a secular humanist.’
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Anthony Appiah on Philosophers
With responses from Michael Walzer and Michael Sandel.
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FBI Calls Murder of Said Sisters ‘Honor’ Killing
Sisters’ relatives have said the father killed them because they dated non-Muslims and acted too western.
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The Usual Confusion About ‘Islamophobia’
Steve Rendall of ‘FAIR’ conflates criticism of Islam with hatred of Muslims, tries to make the former taboo.
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FAIR Examines ‘Islamophobia’
‘The term “Islamophobia” refers to hostility toward Islam and Muslims’ – that begs the question.
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The Uses of Cheater Detection
Humans want revenge but also forgiveness. Over the long haul forgiveness wins out.
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Physicist Says Einstein Got His Sums Wrong
No mention of wife.