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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Peter Singer Interviewed
The issue is suffering.
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Oriana Fallaci 1929-2006
Known for her uncompromising interviews with world leaders; recently for criticism of Islam.
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Crooked Timber Watches Euston
Interesting comments from Jon Pike, Oliver Kamm, Marc Mulholland.
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9/11 Not a Wake-up Call but a Brutal Sedative
The most superpower became a sleepwalking giant only half aware of its surroundings and oblivious to itself.
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Andrew Brown on Religion as Collective Identity
Almost all the more loathsome attitudes of the OT will actually promote group cohesion and success.
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US Undergraduate Education is a Mess
Weaknesses of undergraduate education serve important faculty interests.
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IAEA Calls US Report on Iran ‘Dishonest’
Says report by intelligence committee contains ‘erroneous, misleading… information.’
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Reform of Rape Law in Pakistan Watered Down
Compromise with fundamentalists leaves women at risk.
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Archbishop Urges Struggle Against Secularism
Says UK has been damaged by downgrading of religion, urges parties to adopt ‘Christian’ values.
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Peter Singer Answers Readers’ Questions
‘In a deep metaphysical sense, I don’t think free will exists. But we can make choices, and that’s real enough.’
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Republican War on Science Book Tour
Chris Mooney in Seattle today, Sunday. See you there.
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43d Skeptics’ Circle (Sad Puppy Edition)
Your logic makes the puppy sad.
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Ugandan Taboloid Publishes List of Gays
HRW calls this a chilling development.
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Susan Sontag’s Notebooks
‘My image of myself since age 3 or 4 — the genius-schmuck.’
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Scott McLemee on Marginalia
Too bad Stanley Milgram didn’t annotate Studies in the Scope and Method of ‘The Authoritarian Personality’.
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Danish Newspaper Reprints Holocaust Cartoons
Information published six of the cartoons, which are on display in Tehran.
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Ian Buruma Book Reviewed
Buruma suspects many who invoke Enlightenment are merely defending a conservative order.
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God Loves Rich People
‘Prosperity’ is a branch of Pentecostalism. That would explain a few things.
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Missiles Wrapped in Holograms Hit the WTC
A new kind of conspiracy theorist: respectable, well-read, articulate, but loony.