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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Jesus Wants to Argue with the Barmaid
But when it comes to Swinburne on suffering, he finds it difficult.
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Did Brownback Realize What He Was Saying?
‘Doesn’t somebody at the Times keep an eye out for gross errors of fact on the editorial pages?’
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Zeynep Pamuk Wins Philosophy Olympics
Orhan Pamuk’s niece wins with her article on Spinoza’s coception of a state.
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Dutch Labour Party Tells Member to Shut Up
Ehsan Jami is fighting for the rights and safety of Muslim ‘apostates.’
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Democratic Candidates Trot Out Their ‘Faith’
Faith (applause) sin (applause) sinner (applause) evil (applause) courage (applause).
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Afghan Woman Radio Journalist Murdered
Another woman silenced, another journalist silenced, another triumph for men with guns.
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Woman TV Journalist Murdered in Afghanistan
Shakiba Sanga Amaj, associated with the private Shamshad TV channel, was killed at home in Kabul.
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RSF Shocked at Murder of Zakia Zaki
Zaki ran Peace Radio and was head of a local school; received death threats after criticizing Taliban.
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Sami Zubaida on Many Faces of Multiculturalism
Diverse Muslims are totalised into a ‘Muslim community’ as if religion were the essence of identity.
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Pascal Bruckner on Sarkozy and Kouchner
The battle of the preferable against the detestable is preferable to a crusade of Good against Evil.
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Katha Pollitt on Internationalist Feminism
The only Americans who do the heavy lifting on issues of Muslim women’s rights are feminists.
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Atheism is a Faith, Chapter 4785
Faith is a world view, therefore atheism is a faith, and an extreme fundamentalist faith at that.
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Clerics Make a Mistake in Pressuring Legislators
Legislators don’t vote on behalf of the Pope, archbishop, imam or rabbi.
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Catholic MPs Under Pressure
To vote to restrict abortion, raising fears over the encroachment of religion on women’s rights.
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You Can See Why Atheists Snigger
The first taste of their own rhetorical medicine reduces the godly to frothing rage.
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Islamist Group Offers to Behead Women
Swords of Truth ‘will cut throats, from vein to vein, if needed to protect the spirit and morals of this nation.’
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Not Bob Jones University but Oxford
College head thinks 95% of us will burn in hell; deputy believes it’s wrong for women to teach men.