We have to unpick exactly what was objectionable in what he said and what was acceptable debate.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Jesus and Mo Discuss Abortion
Easy for them.
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Review of Robert Richardson’s William James
James’s modernity is too often lost in the fog of intellectual mannerisms that ‘read’ as late-Victorian.
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Religious Right Seeks To Muscle GOP
‘This may be the biggest collection of theocrats in one room since the Salem Witch Trials.’
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Funding for Creationism Dropped from Bill
More than 30 educational, scientific and religious groups joined forces to oppose the provision.
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Bettina Aptheker’s Memoir and Memory
It raises questions about ‘recovered memory’ and how to evaluate it.
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Public Executions in Iran: Dominance via Fear
Almost all the executions have been public hangings. Videos of the process are then broadcast over the Net.
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Prisoners’ Rights Activist Imprisoned
Emadeddin Baghi was charged with ‘propaganda against the Islamic Republic.’
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Nigel Warburton Interviews Tim Crane
How the mind relates to the body: how could a piece of soft tissue think and feel?
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Anthony Kenny on his History of Philosophy
Some interesting insights into the figures that have shaped the subject ranging from Plato to Derrida.
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Seyla Benhabib on Mosque and State
On some very deep level, there is more symbolic religious politics in the US than anywhere else in the world.
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Atheism in Australia
Phillip Adams, Pamela Bone, David Nicholls, Tamas Pataki, Emily Maguire do without a deity.
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Archbish Wants Women to Agonize More
They treat their bodies as their own; it’s an outrage.
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Atheism in America
Atheism may have made its way into the public discourse but it remains verboten in our politics.
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Religious Marriage Settlement Not Binding
‘The more you can make the whole concept secular, the better off you’re going to be in a civil court.’
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Anthony McIntyre on Maryam Namazie
It is this idea of political Islam as a voice for the oppressed and voiceless which annoys her most.
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Mina Ahadi is Secularist of the Year
Undeterred by the inevitable death threats, Mina has pressed on, determined as ever to protect women from the ravages of Islam.
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Jesus and Mo Make Up
The barmaid shows them the way.
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Bhutto Refuses to Submit
‘We are prepared to risk our lives, but we are not prepared to surrender our great nation to the militants.’
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Why not Find bin Laden, and Lord Lucan Too?
Since there’s a magic box that can find anyone with just a bit of DNA…