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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Jesus and Mo Quiz the Barmaid
Why are atheists so angry at the religious?
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Jesus and Mo on the War on Christmas
They want people to remember it’s Jesus’s pretend birthday.
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Gilles Kepel on a Clash of Fundamentalisms
Without TV and the Internet, jihad would be an alarming but marginal form of immoderation.
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Catherine Bennett on Hitchens on Women
Women unamused by their own physical decay? Hitchens oblivious? ‘Now, why is this?’
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Nigel Warburton Interviews Jonathan Wolff
The best combine imagination and argument; a new landscape of ideas, and how to defend it.
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Nigel Warburton Interviews Mel Thompson
‘Some of my most bored moments have been trying to read those who think that the more clever and obscure they sound, the more profound their thought.’
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From the Researchers to the Flacks to Hitchens
In today’s public discourse, science is treated not as a search for truth, but as source of edifying fables.
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Christians Sue to Block Gay Rights Legislation
Colin Hart of Christian Institute said concerns of religious people had been ‘trampled over.’
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Taliban Law Blocked in NWFP, Pakistan
Supreme Court instructed the provincial governor not to sign the bill.
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Indy Dons the Foil Hat
There are unanswered questions about that Paris car crash. Therefore, the black swan did it.
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Secular Nepal
Hindu activists are demanding that Nepal be declared a Hindu state again.
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Harvard Drops ‘Reason and Faith’ Requirement
Philosopher notes Moral Reasoning can cover ‘what we do and do not have reason to do and believe.’
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Arab Women Unequal in Health and Education
Tangled as it is with religion and culture, the issue of the status of women is a political minefield.
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Hilary Putnam Reviews Goldstein on Spinoza
‘Rebecca Goldstein’s Betraying Spinoza speaks directly to my puzzlement.’
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Scott McLemee Interviews Robert Irwin
‘Said, as literary theorist, was prone to the sweeping generalization. Irwin, as historian, is the partisan of noisome little facts.’
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What to Say When You’re Wrong
‘He just had some kind of silly positivistic notions of science, he doesn’t know what science is.’
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Why Truth Matters Most Underrated Book
Prospect cites chord struck with ‘liberal neocons’. Wot?
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Opposition to Amendments to Hudood Ordinance
Pakistan’s 1979 law against rape that punished rape victims and gave legal safeguards to rapists.
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Chen Ziming Free After 17 Years
Dream was to create a civil society of lobby groups and NGOs with a voice able to challenge the party.