Uganda’s progress has been reversed, perhaps due to switch from condoms to abstinence.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Hari Kunzru on Ossified Multiculturalism
Our views are too often inferred from a dialogue with self-appointed, conservative ‘community leaders.’
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on an Optimistic Breeze
Once activists stood up for all victims of racism and the internal oppressions within groups.
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Some Massacres are More Massacres Than Others
Army shelling at Kathiraveli killed at least 65 civilians; where is the UN condemnation?
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Sunny Hundal on Self-appointed Leaders
It is in everyone’s interests to challenge those who claim to speak for entire groups.
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Manifesto Seeks an End to Communalist Politics
We want to be treated not as homogenous blocks but as free-thinking citizens with diverse views.
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Polygamy is Multicultural Isn’t It?
It’s all about female subservience, one escapee says.
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Elaine Scarry on Why Military Honour Matters
Disregarding the laws of war leads to neo-absolutism.
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Science Fights Back at Last
And the Templeton Foundation gets huffy.
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The Wrong Sort of Petition
Asking LSE to condemn unpopular research without regard for its academic merit.
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BBC Reporter Dilawar Khan Wazir Missing
Was reporting on pro-Taleban militants in Waziristan; has received threats.
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Robert Pirsig Interview
‘There are crackpots with crazy ideas all over the world, and what evidence was I giving that I was not one of them?’
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Review of Kingsley Amis Biography
KA spent a good deal of time making sure his whole personality was more or less continually on view.
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Multiculturalism Questioned in Canada
Maintenance of cultural and religious practices clashes with women’s rights.
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Al-Jazeera International Covers Developing World
But at the price of ignoring other news.
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Nick Cohen on the Housing Bubble
Inflated housing prices are not an unmixed blessing.
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Chaotic Religious Blather Makes a Comeback
Incompatible claims whiz around, theists nag, secularists wince, archbishops scold.
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Michael Ignatieff as Philosopher King
There is ‘a hunger for political engagement, a need for inspiration.’
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Jonathan Sacks Explains About God
Talks what sounds to a nonbeliever like condescending evasive noise.
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Tariq Ramadan Explains About Allah
Humphrys will keep asking about stoning to death.