The novel joins a dark central current that eroticizes children relentlessly and wishes it hadn’t.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
Thinks readers may have more tolerance when he’s being boring, but will not think he’s infallible.
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John Lewis: McCain is Sowing Seeds of Hatred
Lewis’s comments follow widely reported outbursts of anger against Obama at McCain campaign events.
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Riots in Acre
Peres said ‘there are several religions in Israel, there is only one law and one police.’
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Andrew Brown on Libraries
Under the pretence of abolishing elitism, you actually entrench it in the cruellest way.
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Are You Right-on Enough to Teach Here?
Which of your achievements in the area of equity for (____) gives you the most satisfaction?
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Monbiot on Wilson on Booker on Asbestos
‘Since 2002, [Booker] has published 38 articles on this topic, and every one of them is wrong.’
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Steven Poole on ‘Don’t Get Fooled Again’
The author hopes to give us the tools to avoid being fooled by ‘pseudo-news’ and pseudo-experts.
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Tom Clark on ‘Misrepresenting Naturalism’
Naturalism is perfectly supportive of moral responsibility, human flourishing and an open, democratic society.
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Times Higher on Academic Blogging
Many philosophers seem quite happy to post early drafts of their research papers online.
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Christians, Buddhist ‘Offended’ by Cartoon
Cartoon seen as mockery of Pentecostals. (And Palin, and McCain, and God.)
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Jesus and Mo Solve the Problem of Evil
Free will; appreciation; character formation; mystery. My shout.
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Stephen Law’s ‘The God Delusion’ Book Club
Dawkins marshals empirical work on the evolutionary roots of morality to defend godless morality.
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Anthony Appiah at Philosophy Bites
One on experiments in ethics, another on cosmopolitanism.
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Responses to Sam Fleischacker’s Series
‘The alternative to ethnic nationalism is civic nationalism and a regime of equal rights for all citizens.’
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Maclean’s Wins ‘Hate Speech’ Case
BC rights tribunal dismissed the case as did Ontario and Canadian HRC.
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Religion v Science Round 4,857
Strident secularists, fanatical fundamentalists, Dawkins, Beattie, Reiss, Baggini, etc.
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Malalai Joya Receives Human Rights Award
She publicly denounces war criminals, stands up for women’s rights, campaigns on behalf of rape victims.
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Lead Prosecutor on Ayers and Obama
Amazed and outraged that Obama is being linked to Ayers’s actions; pleased that Ayers is a good citizen.
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Vatican Rejects Proposed French Ambassador
He’s gay. Previous candidate refused because he was divorced. Is France teasing Ratzinger?