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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Normblog on a Revisionist Account of Atheism
To be an atheist, on this revisionist account of what atheism is, you have in fact to be a fool.
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Einstein Had ‘Rid Himself of Belief in Atheism’
Because he admired Freud; ‘if we are Freudians, we have a tragic view of life.’ Uh…
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Nesrine Malik on Islam’s Refusenik Women
They have ‘unsavoury views about Islam,’ they ‘nail their colours to the west’s mast of values.’
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Deep Stuff
Subjectivity is the lens and connector through which the spatio-temporal dislocation gets focused and bridged.
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Very Deep Stuff
Links are a paradox uniting the full and empty space between nodes in the network.
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Zanu PF is Burning Maize as Zimbabwe Starves
Food was used as a tool for retribution and punishment by Zanu PF after the 2005 elections.
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Think-tank Launched in Pakistan
An independent think-tank to address issues faced by the people between the Oxus and Indus Rivers.
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Stop Honoricide Campaign
In memory of every mother, daughter, sister murdered to protect family honor.
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Channel 4 Wins ‘Undercover Mosque’ Case
West Midlands Police and Crown Prosecution Service apologize and pay £50,000 damages.
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‘Harun Yahya’ Sentenced to Prison
The Foundation for Scientific Research adopted arguments from young-earth creationist organizations.
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PBS and Public History
Pete Seeger tells the truth in his autobiography, but a new documentary is evasive.
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Irish Bishops Say: Too Many Catholic Schools
92% of the country’s primary schools are managed by the Catholic Church
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Can U Read Kant?
To Mark Bauerlein, the present is a good time to be young only if you don’t mind a tendency toward empty-headedness.
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Jesus and Mo Don’t Believe in the Atheists’ God
God cannot be empirically investigated, he is ineffable, beyond our capacity. Which is handy.
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Should Philosophy Talk to Non-philosophers?
Jonathan Barnes, Myles Fredric Burnyeat, Raymond Geuss, Barry Stroud discuss.
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Archbish Compares Embryo Bill to Rape
Notes that persons must be treated as ends. Fails to note that cells are not persons.
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On Fitna, the Movie
Maryam Namazie, Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush discuss.
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Review of Why Truth Matters
Reviewer much cleverer than authors.
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Clinton Takes the Conservative Populist Tack
Clinton’s ‘hard-working Americans, white Americans’ made explicit what conservative populists usually keep implicit.