University administrators sometimes compare themselves to corporate executives, who are not generally criticized for having ghostwriters on staff.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Eric MacDonald on Michael Ruse on Darwin Day
Ruse wants us to leave a little protected reserve for otherworldly thoughts that can be shielded from the deep quest for knowledge on which science is founded.
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The barmaid praises Jesus and Mo for ingenuity
They are grateful.
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Derby: 3 men jailed for distributing gay death call leaflets
The leaflets showed an image of a wooden mannequin hanging from a noose, quoted Islamic texts, and said capital punishment was the only way to rid society of homosexuality.
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The purpose of a university: to learn to question
Not to shut ourselves off from ideas we find threatening.
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Catholic cardinal says leaks damage church’s image
It’s a question of dignity.
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Jason Rosenhouse on the trouble with theistic evolution
Too often the defender of reconciliation acts as though a logically possible scenario that includes both God and evolution is all that’s needed.
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Mukund Padmanabhan on the republic of hurt sentiments
“We have allowed hurt sentiment in this country to become a cover for aggressive moral vigilantism, an excuse to perpetrate violence in the name of emotional victimhood.”
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Sayeeda Warsi will tell the pope of need for religion
And how evil “militant secularism” is. Telegraph wets itself with joy.
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India: Former RSS activist held for train bombing
Many members of the group were long-serving RSS activists who became disillusioned with the Hindu right-wing’s refusal to replicate the 2002 communal killings in Gujarat nationwide.
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The real agenda behind Kashgari’s arrest
Fostering a climate of fear and oppression is the best guarantee of compliance and Islam is a traditional rallying cry for the masses.
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Denis MacShane MP rebukes Interpol
Interpol is meant to tackle serious crime, not act as the little helper for régimes that want to kill journalists.
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The gap between rhetoric and reality in the Karnataka BJP
The hypocrisy in Karnataka is almost Victorian in its intense public sanctimony and its private flouting of those norms.
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BJP ministers found watching porn during meeting
They claimed to have been watching the clip as part of their homework on an upcoming debate on rave parties in the assembly. Riiight.
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BBC apologizes for broadcasting promotional material
The Malaysian PM’s office had paid FBC to promote BN and Malaysia’s oil palm industry on news shows that it was producing for the BBC.
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Malaysia defends extradition of Hamza Kashgari
Allegations that Kashgari could be tortured and killed if he were sent back home are “ridiculous” because Saudi Arabia is a respectable country, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.
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PEN International fears for the safety of Hamza Kashgari
PEN demands his immediate and unconditional release, in accordance with Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Malaysia has deported Hamza Kashgari to Saudi Arabia
“Insulting the prophet” is considered blasphemous in Islam and is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.
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Republicans vote against Domestic Violence bill
“Family Values” in action.
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Over 8000 sexual abuse victims in Milwaukee archdiocese
The charges cover a span of 60 years and implicate a group of 100 alleged offenders, including nuns, church workers and some 75 priests.
