RSF is outraged by the failure to punish the murder of the director of Peace Radio last year.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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US Prison Numbers Hit a New High
2.3 million, which is 762 per 100,000, the highest rate in the world.
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Burma: Hope Vetoed
China’s foreign policy is predicated on sovereignty: what happens in Burma or China stays in Burma or China.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Wants to be Martyr
CIA’s acknowledgment that Mohammed was waterboarded could complicate the military’s case.
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NY Times Weeps Over YFZ Ranch
‘The sect is now trying to put the pieces back together.’ We know; that’s the problem.
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Turkish Court Blocks Government’s Hijab Move
Rules that vote to ease ban on hijab at universities violated the constitution’s secular principles.
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Archbishop of York Disses Secularism
Said human rights without a reference to God or the divine were left lacking essential safeguards.
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Blaming Denmark
Bombing naughty of course, but Denmark should have known better.
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FP Lists The Worst Places to Be a Woman
Organized gang rape, early marriage, illiteracy, low life expectancy, accusations of sorcery, trafficking.
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Peter Berkowitz Reviews Ibn Warraq
Said’s misrepresentations undermine the separation between scholarship and partisan pleading.
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Expanding Wahhabi Influence in Australia
Griffith University offered to ‘reshape’ its Islamic Research Unit in accordance with Saudi wishes.
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Feminism al-Qaida Style
Islamist women are challenging al-Qaida’s refusal to include women. Right on, sista!
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Tom Clark Disputes Ray Tallis on Free Will
Determinism is compatible with being recursively self-modifying beings that have reasons and intentions.
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The Neurodiversity Movement
A new wave of activists wants to celebrate atypical brain function as a positive identity, not a disability.
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Anthony Lane Sees Sex and the City
Goes in expecting a pleasant evening, comes out a hard-line Marxist.
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Mark Pagel on Kenan Malik and Marek Cohn
Our ability to co-operate with unrelated others enables us to move beyond the politics of race.
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Good and Bad Ad Hominem Arguments
An ad hominem is valid when the claims made about a person’s character or actions are relevant to the conclusions being drawn.
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Jane O’Grady Reviews Raymond Tallis
Tallis uses meditations on the head and its functions as his entrée into what we are.
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Kenan Malik Reviews Raymond Tallis
Tallis can digress entertainingly on anything from Heidegger to hiccups, from Beckett to the basilar membrane.
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More Comedy from West Midlands Police
Cop sees preachers in a ‘Muslim area,’ says they are committing a hate crime.