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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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One for the Rule of Law
‘The case is a blockbuster as much for its reasoning as its effect.’
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Journalism as ‘Treason’
Conservatism waging jihad against the very existence of disinterested arbiters of public discourse.
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On The Penguin Freud Reader
The notion that opposites can collapse into each other at any time becomes very troubling.
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1906 Edition of The Jungle Was Not Censored
The version that See Sharp Press disparages as ‘censored’ is the version Sinclair approved.
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On Goldstein on Spinoza
The intersection between Spinoza’s Jewishness and the cosmopolitanism of his thought.
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Jack Miles on Dennett’s Breaking the Spell
Concepts of God are to theists as concepts of Howard Stern are to atheists. Eh?
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Can History be Open Source?
A historian on Wikipedia.
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Emma Dunham Kelley Hawkins was White
One mistake is hard to root out of the literature, even harder to root out of popular consciousness.
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Furthermore, EDKH Wrote Bad Novels
Despite all the subtle – very, very subtle – signs of irony and resistance and whatnot.
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US Supreme Court: Military Tribunals Illegal
Court rules that trying terrorism suspects by military tribunal violates Geneva Conventions.
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Man Sentenced for ‘Honour Killing’ in Denmark
Ghazala Khan was murdered because the family opposed her choice of husband.
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Occultism
It’s everywhere. Or is it.
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Supporting Science Teachers
Science academies from 67 countries sign a statement on teaching evolution. They’re for it.
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Richard Swinburne Talks Revolting Nonsense
Suffering is good for us, God answers prayers if we ask for the right reasons.
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We May Lose Hormones, But We Gain Empathy
Development never stops, which is one of the things that make it interesting to be a being.
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Kira Cochrane Interviews Ariel Levy
How does one distinguish the new feminism from the old objectification?
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Fundy Xians are Loony in Different Ways
So they’re not all that alarming? Hmm.
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Lot of Issues Here
‘I’m gay, so I get Diversity, so hire me, but it’s a secret.’
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A C Grayling on the Human Rights Act
Institutionalising rights guarantees inconveniences for politicians; and that is as it should be.