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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Charlie Savage on the Imperial President [audio]
Boston Globe reporter’s book describes how the Bush-Cheney admin has expanded executive power.
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On Consequentialism
Brad Hooker, a consequentialist himself, outlines and defends his position in this interview with Nigel Warburton.
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Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism
Should we just tolerate other ways of living? Can philosophers be experts in morality?
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Women’s Rights? What Are They?
Proposed law forbids abortions without written permission from the father of the fetus.
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Italy Asks UK not to Deport Emambakhsh
The case of Pegah Emambakhsh has become front-page news in Italy while going almost unreported in Britain.
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Exam Plans are a Betrayal
Royal Society of Chemistry head criticizes plans to make science questions easier.
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Extract from Natalie Angier’s The Canon
Science is huge, a great ocean of human experience; it’s the product and point of having the most deeply corrugated brain of any species this planet has spawned.
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Boys Do Ruin Schools for Girls
Boys benefit from being in a classroom with girls, but girls do not benefit from being in a classroom with boys.
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David Thompson Interviews Tahir Aslam Gora
‘I cannot understand how Islam or any religion could be a complete way of life.’
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John Allen Paulos on Goddy Math
We read more about the intrusion of pseudoscience into school science curricula in the US.
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Why is Academic Writing so Boring?
A detective novel written by a good philosophy student would begin: ‘In this novel I shall show that the butler did it.’
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Morris Dickstein on the Critical Landscape
Books are still read and enjoyed, but the pleasure is had at the expense of analysis and criticism.
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Secularism is an ‘Ideology Inimical to Religions’
‘Secularists have a right to have a voice but not a voice to denigrate or relegate religions to a non-space.’
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Simon Caterson Reviews Grayling on Freedom
It is only in the past few centuries that any human beyond a tiny ruling class had any expectations.
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Mild Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Chastises Atheists
Brash – fanatic – know they are always right – zealots – hysterical – dishonest – militant – fundamentalist –
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Nigeria’s Ostracized Women
In Africa, c. two million women have Vesico Vaginal Fistula, a condition caused by prolonged labour.
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The Social Impact of VVF
Many of the women turn to prostitution to survive, and when they get older, they become beggars.
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Susan Jacoby on Teresa’s Narcissistic Doubt
Both the psychonanalysts and the priests think Teresa is even holier because of her doubts.
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The Murder of Chauncey Bailey
The editor of the Oakland Post was killed last month allegedly for investigating Your Black Muslim Bakery.