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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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Take That, Pesky Microfascists
Academic article solemnly disputes blog commenters.
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Why James Clerk Maxwell Matters
He carried out the first profound unification of nature’s forces.
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Ethiopia Finds Mengistu Guilty of Genocide
Junta ‘set up a hit squad to decimate, torture and destroy groups opposing the Mengistu regime.’
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Another Denver Megachurch Pastor Resigns
Because of humping men. Colorado new hotbed of tragic conflicted queer evangelists.
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Religious Convictions Have a Hard Edge
Roy Hattersley on worship of a stern and vengeful god.
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Theory and Practice of Literary (Mis)reading
On Ziauddin Sardar on ‘Blitcon’.
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Pinochet Escapes Prosecution
More than 3,000 people were killed or ‘disappeared’ in his 17-year rule.
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Hitchens on Pinochet
His death is an occasion to remember the many victims of his state and international terrorism.
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The Bishops are on the Prowl
A harmonious society is not best served by archbishops passing themselves off as a persecuted minority.
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Ian Hacking: Whose Body Is It?
How dead is brain-dead?
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Is Politics Merely Show Biz?
The danger of a large diverse group is that the loudest voices will dominate and a herd mentality will take over.
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Russell Jacoby Has Doubts About Arendt
But makes an exception for Eichmann in Jerusalem.
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Roger Scruton Talks to the CBC
‘The most controversial but best-read philosopher in Britain’ – perhaps jet lagged.
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Robert McCrum on Sardar’s ‘Ludicrous Piece’
‘Planet Sardar is barely on any intellectual radar I’d care to consult.’
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An ‘Aggressive Secularist’ Speaks
Terry Sanderson wonders if the Archbishop of York is fully in control of his faculties.
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Corruption in Congress
A conspiracy to use ‘campaign contributions’ to bribe politicians.