‘Ever since I became a religious person, I’ve noticed how much our country is deteriorating.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Girl Executed for Being Raped
When Atefah realised her case was hopeless, she threw off her veil in protest. Fatal move.
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Armageddon Fans Look Forward to WWIII
Evangelist claims confrontation with Iran is necessary to fulfill God’s plan for the future of the world.
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BHL in Israel
Behind the scenes, a fascism with an Islamist face.
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Nicholas Humphrey’s Seeing Red
‘It is our experience of the inner world that confirms the existence of a person.’
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Real Voices of Brick Lane are Silent
‘Greer is assuming a community speaks with one voice; it is patronising and arrogant.’
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Ah, That’s a Relief
‘We only want to stop people from committing bad acts and help maintain the honor of Islam.’
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More Pictures from Stop the War Demo
Hezbollah flags, we are all Hezbollah signs, more Hezbollah flags.
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First Chapter of Hofstadter Biography
‘Hofstadter exhibited an enviable ability to connect with a large, critical, and politically conscious readership.’
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John Gray on Sen’s Identity and Violence
Attack on ‘solitarist’ theory that identities are formed by membership of a single social group.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on Cosmopolitanism
The left sees cosmopolitanism as dilettante and elitist, the right sees it as unpatriotic.
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Simon Blackburn on Plato’s Republic
‘If any books change the world, Republic has a good claim to first place.’
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Sam Tanenhaus Reviews Hofstadter Biography
Some of his best-known ideas came in think pieces in general interest magazines.
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Robert Wokler 1942-2006
Contested with postmodernism the Enlightenment’s putative responsibility for the Holocaust.
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Protesters Call for Cease-fire in Lebanon
March organized by the Stop The War Coalition.
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Germaine Greer on Brick Lane Again
Silently tweaks what she said the first time…
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Jeremy Stangroom on Little Atoms
Friday afternoon at 4:30.
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Anti-semitism on the Left
Construction of a ‘community’ or ‘people’ is dependent on the construction of an enemy.
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Dare to be Dumb
In science, feeling confused is essential to progress; unwillingness to feel lost can stop creativity dead.
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The Transformational Power of Sex and Death
Intelligent design is the bait on the barbed hook of creationist belief.
