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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Iran Bans Human Rights Group
Centre for Defence of Human Rights led by Shirin Ebadi declared illegal.
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Zaid Al-Ali on Hizbollah’s Victory
Israeli statements are dismissed as lies; everything Nasrallah says is considered to be unspoiled truth.
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MPs Say Forced Religion is Human Rights Abuse
Pupils should be able to ‘enjoy the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.’
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‘Christian Voice’ Gets Comedian Dropped
Jim Jeffries was going to debate Stephen Green on blasphemy but Green said ick, no.
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Student Leader Dies in Prison in Iran
Akbar Mohammadi spent almost 5 years in prison for ‘activities against the Islamic Republic.’
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More on Akbar Mohammadi
His death has renewed criticism of Iranian government over treatment of political dissidents.
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Carlin Romano on a Philosophy of Boredom
Boredom is tantamount to ‘meaning withdrawal.’
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Adam Phillips on William Empson
Believed the Christian God was a device invented to stop people having the kinds of mind that could be changed.
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Writers Remember Barbara Epstein
Gore Vidal, Alison Lurie, Pankaj Mishra, Elizabeth Hardwick, many more.
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Ibn Warraq on The Need for Qur’anic Criticism
What we need is a radical Enlightenment.
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Time for the West to Embrace its own Secularism
‘The tricky part of tolerance is that those who invoke it as victims hate it in principle.’
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Jesus and Mo Discuss Doubt
What about humans alone in a meaningless universe?
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What Next for Humanity?
Spiked asks scientists, philosophers, thinkers.
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Norman Levitt Recommends Enlightenment
We have a culture which has a hard time coming to grips with science.
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Raymond Tallis on Thinking About Human Nature
Neither supernatural nor indistinguishable from other animals.
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Scott McLemee on George Scialabba
He has read his way through a canon or two; but his thinking is not, as the saying goes, ‘professionalized.’
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Separate Kitchens for Stem Cells
When science becomes politicized science, it also becomes unkosher.
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‘We are all Hizbullah now.’ Really?
The moral idiocy of the sentiment betrayed the higher purpose of the march.
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Why Does Feminism Provoke Hostility?
Because subordinated women clean the toilets. Simple.