The first taste of their own rhetorical medicine reduces the godly to frothing rage.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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Female Newsreaders Protest Threat
Shameless women claim ability to dress themselves without help.
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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.
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Why the Boycott is Stupid
The academy is the arena for debate; the sharper that is, the more likely that truth is what will emerge.
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Iran Promoting Temporary ‘Marriages’
There are already tens of thousands of children from temporary marriages whose fathers deny them.
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What Senator Brownback ‘Thinks’ on Evolution
‘Faith seeks to purify reason so that we might be able to see more clearly, not less.’
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Mark Perakh Reviews Stephen Barr
Good physics, bad arguments that science is ‘the friend of faith.’
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Nigel Warburton Interviews Michael Clark
What a paradox is and why philosophers should be interested in them.
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Abortion is a Wedge Issue
Part of a wider attempt to roll back the values of secularism and impose religious views on everyone.
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Female Flight Attendants Told to Be Thin
Otherwise the plane might fall down, you see.
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Chris Hedges Explains ‘Authentic’ Religion
‘Religious faith has no quarrel with science. It seeks a spiritual truth, not a scientific or historical fact.’
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Collins Has It, Hitchens Doesn’t
An intrinsic feeling for religion.
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Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Threatens Academics
They will be suspected of spying if they interact with foreign institutions or attend international conferences.
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Catholic Cardinal Threatens Pro-abortion MPs
Cardinal has been frustrated by ‘the marginalisation of Christian values in public affairs.’
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Iran Accuses ‘Persepolis’ of ‘Islamophobia’
Well it would, wouldn’t it.
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Can Philosophy Save the Middle East?
Does philosophy provide a language through which people can communicate even if they do not accept each other’s religious commitments?
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Jon Wiener Interviews Sari Nusseibeh
‘Very often in life the implementation of one right conflicts with the ability to implement another.’
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Martha Nussbaum: Against Academic Boycotts
Indifference to the lives and health of women has never been seriously considered as a reason for any boycott.
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Lecturers’ Union Backs Boycott of Israel
Delegates at conference of new University and College Union voted three to two to recommend boycotts.