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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ivory-bill Sightings Reported in Florida
No photos, but repeated sightings, suggestive physical evidence.
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Man Sentenced to Prison for FGM of Daughter
Khalid Adem found guilty of aggravated battery and cruelty to children by a Georgia court.
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Scott McLemee on Lawrence Levine
He looked at the diversity of cultural traditions making up American life.
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US, Vatican Impede Sexual Health Goals
Religious zealots prefer STDs and unwanted pregnancies to birth control.
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Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi on Max Boot
Iranian dissidents want the support of human rights groups, intellectuals, NGOs, not of foreign powers.
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Turkish Archaeologist Acquitted
Charges were brought against her by a Turkish lawyer who took offence at her 2005 book.
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Michael Collins on Sen’s Identity and Violence
Fluid and evolving nature of identities, and differences within cultural groupings, are obscured.
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John Gray on Michael Burleigh on Secularism
Much of the book is a laboured defence of the Vatican against charges of complicity with Nazism.
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Atheists’ ‘Nauseous Undertone of Racial Superiority’
White people are atheists, non-white people are theists, therefore atheists are as bad as Cecil Rhodes.
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Faith, Hope, and Selective Schools
Amendment will give greater freedom to discriminate on grounds of religion in hiring staff and teachers.
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Nick Cohen Reviews Debating Humanism
The politically literate will notice that this collection of essays comes from the RCP.
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Elephant Recognises Herself in Mirror
Showing self-awareness seen before only in humans, great apes and bottlenose dolphins.
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Terry Glavin on Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
The phony charges against him were revived by a notorious Islamist judge; his trial is next month.
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Christopher Shea on Reading Nafisi at Columbia
Some observers question the intellectual merit of the brand of literary criticism Dabashi practices.
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Review of The God Delusion
Perceptive recognition of excess respect for religious beliefs, regardless of content.
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Romano on Young-Bruehl on Why Arendt Matters
Hint: ‘the banality of evil’ is not all.
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Jihad in 1857
Educated Delhi Muslims rejected the west and the gentle Sufi traditions of late Mughal emperors.
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Garry Wills on Faith-Based Everything
Faith-based war, law enforcement, education, medicine, and science.
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Atheists Top Book Charts by Teasing Deity
Publishers eager to replicate success of Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian.