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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Inevitably links go out of date.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 Fashionable to be Christian
Christians depicted as zealots or people who haven’t caught up.
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Supreme Court Ruling on Carbon Emissions
Clean Air Act gives EPA the authority to regulate emissions from cars.
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Carl Zimmer on Time in the Animal Mind
Several recent experiments suggest that, like humans, animals can visit the past and future.
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The Evolution of Sex Roles
How did our male and female ancestors divide work; how did the division shape the species?
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Aids Patients Refuse Meds, Take Holy Water
Treatment is offered by a church in Ethiopia which claims to have cured hundreds of believers.
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Sam Harris and Rick Warren on Religion
One talks sense, the other talks drivel. Ho hum.
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Jonathan Wolff on Bureaucracy and Necessity
There can be bureaucracy without accountability, but can there be accountability without bureaucracy?
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Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Consider the effect of the “global” on discourses of knowledge and power, literary analysis, and theories of subjectivity.
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Rafia Zakaria on The Silence of the Left
Western leftists, prioritising their own opposition to American imperialism, have abandoned Iranian liberals.
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Secret Plan to Gut Endangered Species Act
Many Fish and Wildlife Service employees believe the draft is not based on ‘defensible science.’
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Official at Fish and Wildlife Vetoed Scientists
Department’s inspector general says official sent internal agency documents to industry lobbyists.
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Zimbardo on the Lucifer Effect
‘I knew from our experiment, if you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.’
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Mitchell Cohen on John Bowen on the Hijab
Bowen doesn’t pose the questions adequately.
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Sister of ‘Honour’ Killing Victim Threatened
Sister told jurors she was beaten, called a whore, accused of being too Westernised.
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A Breathtakingly Manipulative Speech
The church is used to having privilege, and sees removal of privilege as an attack on its freedom.
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Paving the Way for a Muslim Parallel Society
Rulings help create a parallel Muslim world in Germany that is welcoming to Islamic fundamentalists.
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André Glucksmann’s Lifetime of Indignation
‘There are many guardians of sleep. The thinker’s task is to fight against them.’
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Poll: US Drowning in Ignorance
48% rejects evolution; 34% of college graduates say they accept Biblical account of creation as fact.
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Slavoj Žižek and Jerry Cohen at the ICA
‘Sometimes the wrong question being asked is part of the problem.’