Alix Joseph, a high school philosophy teacher, hosted a program of news about cultural activities.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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‘Honour’ Crimes on the Increase in London
‘Honour crimes are corrosive and the victim deserves protection,’ Crown Prosecutor tells CPS conference.
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More Repressive, More Violent, More Lawless
The status of women was never high under Saddam, but Iraq today is even worse for women.
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Choman Hardi on the Devices of Patriarchy
Practices like forced marriage benefit men and treat women as a commodity.
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Giles Harvey on Hitchens on God
The book adds little to the case against God. This is the undoing of recent atheistic tracts.
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Chinese Writing May Date Back 8000 Years
Ancient rock carvings bear a strong resemblance to later forms of Chinese characters.
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Iran Says: Let’s Segregate Internet Cafés
So all this copulating in internet cafés will cease, and a new day will dawn.
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Iran to Manufacture Islamic Bicycles for Women
Fitted with little houses that conceal the woman’s scary Body and make riding very difficult.
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Why Islamic Bikes
Because women move while biking, thus arousing men; this must not be. Women must be immobile.
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Julian Baggini on the Elvis of Philosophy
When he does hit the nail on the head, he does it so clearly and unexpectedly, you have to take notice.
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Jesus and Mo Discuss Evolution
Wing wong wang. Ha ha ha!
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Mo Notices That Islam is Hard Work
All that praying, and so much cool stuff is haram.
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Birthday in Captivity
BBC, UN, international journalists’ groups are holding vigils to mark the 45th birthday of Alan Johnston.
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Darwin’s Letters Go Online
5,000 letters published in full, summaries of a further 9,000 which will be added in the future.
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The Darwin Letters
A rich source of information on many aspects of 19th century science and history.
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The Devil’s Chaplain Letter
What a book a Devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low & horridly cruel works of nature!
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Student Editors Jailed in Iran
Following the publication of newsletters carrying articles deemed insulting to Islam.
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Hitchens Says So Long to Falwell
Extraordinary that not even such a scandalous career is enough to shake our dumb addiction to the “faith-based.”
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Scientologists in a Huff at BBC
Official says it is considering legal action and a formal complaint to Ofcom.
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Lewis Wolpert on Belief, Philosophy, Qi
‘I think philosophers are terribly clever but have absolutely nothing useful to say whatsoever.’