Ayuure Kapini Atafori notes that culture can facilitate or retrogress the process of social change.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Eric Kaufmann Reviews The Ethics of Identity
Appiah’s book is sensitive to community but reads as a paean to Mill, autonomy and the Enlightenment.
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George Packer on International Inaction on Darfur
International intervention as a means of stopping mass slaughter has never had many supporters.
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Spiegel Interviews Bassam Tibi
‘I support reforming Islam and I am not alone in this.’
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John Banville Reads Michael Frayn
‘He has got hold of a simple fact about the world, which is its indeterminacy.’
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Sophie Hannah on Wendy Cope
If you can read it without laughing, you need medical attention.
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Wangari Maathai Writes Autobiography
Her campaign to mobilise poor women to plant 30 million trees has been copied by other countries.
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Afghan Girls Risk Their Lives to go to School
Attackers have hurled grenades into classrooms and threatened to throw acid on girl pupils.
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Marek Kohn Reviews The God Delusion
Dawkins ‘disregards the risk that attacking a people’s religion may amount to an attack on them as a group.’
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Martin Amis Says it’s All About Women
‘Well, I do have a solution,’ he says. ‘It’s basically consciousness-raising in Islamic women.’
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Greens Help to Destroy Planet, Green Says
James Martin says opposition to nuclear power by environmentalists is irrational and dangerous.
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Sen’s Identity and Violence
How do some identities become more salient than others?
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Journalist Wajeha Al-Huwaider Arrested
She was carrying a poster that said ‘Give Women their Rights!’ Religious police called in.
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Nick Cohen on Creationism in the UK
Sufferers from the ‘balance’ fallacy don’t get that you can’t have balance between truth and falsehood.
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BBC Gives Denmark a Damn Good Scolding
‘The question everyone is asking is has Denmark learned its lesson?’
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Evangelical Seeks Private Prosecution
George Hargreaves will be seeking a private prosecution of members of the Gay Police Association.
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No Prosecution Over Gay Police Advertisment
Insufficient evidence to bring a case against Gay Police Association under hate crimes legislation.
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Turkish Writers Face Prosecution
Pamuk, Shafak, Dink, other Turkish intellectuals push the boundaries of cultural policing.
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Eric Rauchway on Michael Bérubé
Chapter on postmodernism discusses in lucid, engaging, careful terms the Lyotard-Habermas debate.
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Crispin Tickell on The God Delusion
Demolition of god delusion makes room for real inquiry.