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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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David Thompson Poses a Key Question
Is it possible to oppose the oppression of women without challenging specific religious laws?
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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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Nigel Warburton Interviews Michael Clark
What a paradox is and why philosophers should be interested in them.
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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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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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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.
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On the Boycott
The resolution cited ‘the complicity of Israeli academia’ in the occupation of Palestinian lands.
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Joan Smith on the Boycott
These are dark times for those of us who believe that the free exchange of ideas is a prerequisite of democracy.
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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.’