Academics, especially scientists, have been targeted for assassination.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Fanatiques sans Frontières Are on the March
Timothy Garton Ash says enemies of freedom are manifold and ubiquitous.
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Secular Islam Summit March 2007
An international forum for secularists of Islamic societies.
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God Disproved by Fact of Scepticism
God is of necessity too large and imposing to get lost in the sock-drawer.
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Guardian Rebukes Jack Straw
He ‘provoked anger and indignation among broad sections of the Muslim community yesterday.’
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Jack Straw’s Article on Faces and Veils
He thinks there is an issue.
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Replies to Paul Vallely [scroll down]
‘These works of art were not self-censored out of sensitivity, but out of fear.’
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Sen and Appiah Reviewed
Both use their experiences to cut through the thickets of nationalism.
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Benjamin Balint on Why Hannah Arendt Matters
Arendt predicted that totalitarian tendencies will survive the death of the era of totalitarian states.
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Motoon Row Helpful to BNP
New BNP leaflets with Motoons handed out in Sutton; Lal Hussain said residents were shocked.
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Interview with Marjane Satrapi
‘The prat is international. The prat is everywhere.’
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A Newly Discovered Frost Poem
Scott McLemee on a vision of disturbance.
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Jonathan Liu on Michael Bérubé
‘Conservatives have somehow become both voices of intellectual “rigor” and allies of populist anti-intellectuals.’
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Eric Alterman on Paul Berman on I F Stone
Disservice to truth via faulty reading of bogus controversy over whether Stone ever spied for the Russians.
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Berman Answers Alterman
The controversy is not entirely bogus.
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John Carey and the Higher Destruction
Having enjoyed a successful career as an elitist, he finds that elitism has become a dirty word.
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Guardian Interviews Ruth Simmons
For me [reading] opened a window into a different reality, where it was possible for someone like me to be accepted
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French Philosophy Teacher Still in Hiding
After ‘attack’ on Islam, says Guardian.
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Philosophers Demand Help for Teacher
BHL, Finkielkraut, Glucksmann, others appeal to government to do more to help Redeker.
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Shut Up, Explains Paul Vallely
People who don’t like religious silencing are ‘alarmists.’