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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Zoe Williams on the HPV Vaccine
As vaccine for cervical cancer becomes available in the UK, conservative opinion mobilises.
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Pharmacists and Plan B
‘If a person’s purpose is to kill a fertilized egg, then I disagree with that.’
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Jesus Camp, the Movie
Evangelical asks audience to ‘raise hands in prayer’ towards a life-size photo of Bush.
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Left Should Forget Diversity, Heed Inequality
Critics say left can do both; Walter Benn Michaels says it hasn’t happened.
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Newsflash: Fay Weldon is Silly
Her new book beats up on nasty materialists and ‘Darwinians’; she has Found God.
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More on Bruce Hood
Says difference between valuing sentimental objects and believing in magic is only one of degree.
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Frederic Jameson on Slavoj Žižek
‘Theory has no vested interests inasmuch as it never lays claim to an absolute system.’
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Ignatieff Frontrunner for Liberal Party Leadership
‘Many Liberals are now hoping the writer and academic will be the next Trudeau.’
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Psychologist Says Humans Hardwired for Religion
But seems to equate religious belief with sentiment, which is dubious.
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Honour Killings OK
10% of young British Asians thinks ‘honour killings’ can be justified, according to BBC poll.
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Vaccine Stops 75% of Cervical Cancer Deaths
Gardasil was found to be effective on more strains of HPV than first thought.
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Nick Cohen on Why Language Matters
‘The Left can’t talk in a way that convinces outsiders that it is honest.’
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Scott McLemee Says Adios to Deadwood
The characters delivered intricate arias of Victorian syntax and repetitive obscenity.
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Witches Have to Pay Tax
‘If they sell something, whether it’s a potion or a curse, they need to pay tax.’
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MPs Worry About Rising Hatred of British Jews
Accuse some left activists and Muslim extremists of using criticism of Israel as ‘pretext’ for anti-semitism.
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What John Adams Scribbled in his Books
‘What he most dislikes is breezy confidence; the pieties of both left and right set him off.’
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Richard Wolin on Foucault’s Change of Mind
Later Foucault was a human-rights activist, contrary to his canonization as the progenitor of identity politics.
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Radio Netherlands on Naguib Mahfouz [audio]
Excerpts from the Cairo Trilogy with discussion by Fouad Ajami.