Blair wants to devote the rest of his life to promoting understanding between the world’s religions.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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AI Condemns Detentions in Egypt
Amnesty International says about 18,000 are in jail in Egypt without being charged or put on trial.
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Amnesty Slams Egypt for Illegal Detentions
Report said conditions in which detainees are held are cruel; hundreds were reportedly ill with TB, other diseases.
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Amnesty Urges Iran to Overturn Sentences
Convictions of six women’s rights defenders should be overturned on appeal.
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Stone Apologizes for Karma Remark
Dior has won the affection and respect of the consuming public in China.
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Texas Supreme Court Rules in FLDS Case
The children must be returned to their parents.
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ACLU Joins FLDS Parents
Backs parents’ rights over children’s rights.
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FLDS Dissent Says Teenage Girls at Risk
Dissenting opinion in FLDS ruling says teenage girls remain at risk because of pattern of sexual abuse.
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Save the Children on Abuse by Peacekeepers
The report shows sexual abuse has been widely underreported because children are afraid to come forward.
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Repressive Law Renewed Instead of Reforms
Egyptian government’s abrupt extension of the state of emergency shows contempt for the rule of law.
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Science Can’t Prove Nothin’
Can’t prove a house is beautiful, so why make mediums warn their customers?
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Sayed Pervez Kambaksh May Be Safe
Hamid Karzai has privately assured Kambaksh’s campaign team that he will be freed.
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Another Agnostic Pipes Up
It is music in general that must be tossed out when you refuse to appreciate religion. Eh?
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Jeff Sharlet Reads Martha Nussbaum
Strengthening the hand of the theocons by underestimating the scope of the Christian nationalist challenge.
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Normblog on the ‘Post-left’
Are apologists for Islamism more unleft than were apologists for Stalinism? No.
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Radicalism as Reaction
The revolution was repressive from its start, flawed with a programmatic illiberalism and anti-intellectualism.
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Gene Robinson and Christopher Hitchens
Robinson is patently kind and sincere, but he’s wrong; Hitchens can be rude and combative, but he’s right.
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Morris Dickstein on Fiction and Political Fact
Public life determines private life; exploring that link is the sine qua non of good social and political fiction.
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What Shameless Repetition
Repetition can make promotional testimony seem eerily quantitative.