Scott McLemee discusses American weirdness aka exceptionalism with historian Eric Rauchway.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Bush’s Strange Press Conference
The key reality that Bush fails to grasp is that terrorism and democracy are not opposites.
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Fred Halliday on the ‘Greater West Asian Crisis’
Events in Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, are becoming comprehensible only in a broader regional context.
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Sunday School Teacher Fired for Being a Woman
She’d taught there for 54 years, but Paul said women had to shut up, so that’s that.
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Catholic Church Backs ‘Faith Crime’ Investigation
‘Another sign that Christianphobia has become fashionable and acceptable.’
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Religious ‘Worship’ Should Remain Mandatory
Catholic Education Service says sixth formers should not be allowed to opt out.
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What’s Behind ‘Muslim Anger’?
Mark Sageman points to small group dynamics as a key trigger.
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Civil Liberties Aren’t Eternal Verities
Social critics say our culture tends to mistake ephemeral modern phenomena for eternal truths.
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Harold Meyerson Reviews Peter Beinart
Since 1968, it has almost always been time to reinvent the liberal project.
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Michael Walzer on Regime Change and Just War
NGOs, such as HRW or AI, also aim, in their own way, at regime change.
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Emotions Influence Moral Reasoning
The hope is that by better understanding how we think, we can teach ourselves to think better.
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‘Religiously Aggravated Hate Crime’ Investigated
So be careful what you say. Better yet, don’t say anything.
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Mary Warnock: Not Everyone Can Win a Nobel
How can universities be world class without being elitist?
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Nick Cohen on Educational Abundance
Plenty of media-literate drama queens, not enough engineers, mathematicians and linguists.
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Woman’s Murder by Muslim Father Shocks Italy
She refused to return to Gujarat to marry a cousin.
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Shahid Malik not Impressed by ‘Muslim Leaders’
MP thinks sharia law and more religious holidays not quite the answer.
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US Theocrats Call for Stoning of Non-believers
They’re a minority – for the moment.
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‘Martyrdom Videos’ Found
Good to know publicity angle was not neglected.
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John Sutherland on Arguing Over Shakespeare
Did he invent the human, was he a Catholic, was the Globe liminally subversive?
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A Third of a Generation is Creationist
Creationists ignore the evidence against it, and minds closed to the truth are dangerous.