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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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Alan Wolfe on Michael Bérubé’s New Book
Leading conservatives don’t send their children to Pepperdine if they can get into Harvard instead.
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Review of Ian Buruma on Theo van Gogh Murder
His treatment of Islamism is all the more damning for being less shrill.
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Seyran Ates is Staying
Paraphrase of German article pending news in English.
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Sie gibt nicht auf
‘Eine zivilisierte Gesellschaft ist ohne Menschen wie Seyran Ates arm.’ Yes it is.
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Goat Forced to Marry Man
Rape victim handed over to perp.
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Women Protest Segregation in Grand Mosque
‘The proposal was made by a panel of men.’ Surprise!
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It Seems Women Are Always in the Way
They have to be pushed to the side so that their presence does not irritate, annoy or distract – men.
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‘What Happened in Rwanda, it Will Happen Here’
“If these soldiers leave,” Sheik Ali said, “we will all be slaughtered.”
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Fred Halliday on the Left and the Jihad
History is being rewritten, the language of political argument adjusted to accommodate this new accommodation.
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Martin Amis on the Age of Horrorism
All men are not my brothers, because all women are my sisters.
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Priest Makes Bomb Threat to Stop Madonna
Compassion, mercy, charity in action.
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Nick Cohen on Research into Forgiveness
Vicars practice what they preach but churchgoers were as likely to want revenge as unbelievers.
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Ignatieff: Prodigal Son or Martian Outsider?
‘There’s a difference between weekend jaunts and the rootless existence of an incurable cosmopolitan.’
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Terry Glavin on Michael Ignatieff
He understands politics as tragedy, as a matter of always having to choose the lesser evil.
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Ben Goldacre Asks: How is This Not a Trial?
It’s a trial in the press, but when questions are asked, it’s not.
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Why Music Matters – to Humans
Did a taste for music evolve? Or is it just a by-product of other adaptations?
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ACLU Condemns Approval of H.R. 2679
‘Public Expression of Religion Act’ would discourage enforcement of a specific constitutional protection.