Four of Darwin’s friends carried the brunt of the public storm: each a specialist in his scientific field.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Barney Frank on the Plebiscitary Presidency
The president is not the single decider. He is the most important in a system of multiple sources of power.
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Barney Frank’s Speech to Congress
‘This is an administration which considers checks and balances to be a hindrance to effective governance.’
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The Fad for Yob Lit
Gilbert recasts insignificant bits of everyday life as being the source of social decay today.
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Iowan Arrested for Flying Upside-down Flag
Charged with disorderly conduct, getting death threats from a forum on a Marine vets’ website.
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Guatemala: Killings of Women Increase in 2006
Over 2,200 women and girls have been brutally murdered in Guatemala since 2001.
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Older Students to be Allowed not to Worship
Younger students still forced to attend daily ‘collective worship’ in UK.
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Bush Brandishes Baby, Vetoes Stem Cell Bill
Leading researchers call Bush ‘hypocritical’, ‘out of touch’ and ‘selfish’ over his decision.
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Japanese PM Continutes to Visit War Shrine
Despite the presence of war criminals there and anger of Korea and China.
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Danny Postel Interview with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Interview was conducted via e-mail in January and February 2006 – just before Jahanbegloo’s arrest.
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Maclean’s Provides Articles on/by Jahanbegloo
Ottawa is powerless to do anything about the imprisonment of one of its citizens.
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Wot’s ‘Cultural Competencies’?
It has to do with the pleasure of interpretation.
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Scott McLemee on Philip Rieff
His writing resembled the private language of some brilliant but eccentric rabbi.
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Richard Ashcroft Discusses Medical Ethics
In all of Ashcroft’s work, there is a trade off between the scientific and the philosophical.
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More Scott McLemee on Philip Rieff
Rieff’s ideas are still very much in the vein of what Sontag denounced as ‘piety without content.’
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Trevor-Roper Wrote a Good Letter
The Observer is skewered as ‘that declining organ of Germanic Wykehamist apocalyptic socialism.’
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Sunny Hundal on Identity Games
The Hindu Council UK decided to lob their own grenade in the identity politics debate last week.
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Inayat Bunglawala on Bright and the MCB
Look for Sunny’s comments.
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What it Takes to Teach Literature at University
A decade or more of immersion in a highly politicized and anti-literary academic culture.
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Interview With Katha Pollitt
So, what about that stupid Wonkette review? Well, it was stupid.