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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Political Assessments Bypass Reason
A network of emotion circuits lights up.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Retains Dutch Citizenship
Rita Verdonk found a loophole.
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Beware the Dreaded Bloggofascist
‘Butterflies don’t live here, in the blogosphere.’ Speak for yourself, bub.
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Handy Tool to Block Regulation
Data Quality Act was written not by a member of Congress but by a lobbyist. Surprise, surprise.
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Norm Geras on Crimes Against Humanity
A talk given at the conference on the Politics of Mass Murder at Kingston University.
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Paul Gross on Scientists on Intelligent Design
War between science and fundamentalist IDM is troubling for science education and science itself.
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Review of David Brion Davis on Abolition
A masterly overview of what scholars in the field have achieved over the past fifty years.
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Mark Crispin Miller on the Death of News
Although its history is far from glorious, the US press has never been as bad as it is now.
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Vatican Guy Warns Amnesty Int on Abortion
AI will be discredited if it pushes for global decriminalization of abortion, cardinal says.
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Scientists ‘Playing God’? That’s Good News
Muddled thinking is behind the worries.
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For Sen, Identities are Multiple
Identity is constructed according to the modes of affiliation one chooses to emphasize at any point.
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Christine Stansell on Jane Addams
There is now a small revival of writing on Addams going on, after years of neglect.
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One Evangelical Says Jesus Wasn’t a Republican
The evangelical subculture, which prizes conformity above all else, doesn’t suffer rebels gladly.
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The Study of Social Mobility
What causes it? Character? Heredity? Luck? Hard work?
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John Gray on Pankaj Mishra on European Influence
‘The current view of Islam as being somehow anti-western is just as unreal.’
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Steve Poole on Why Truth Matters
We don’t actually slap Derrida around, we slap one of his fans around. Different thing.
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Taliban Continues Attacks on Female Half
Taliban attacks and threats have disrupted or shut down more than 300 schools that teach girls.
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The Uses of Ann Coulter
She provides a substitute for racist trash-talk.
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Martha Nussbaum Reads Harvey Mansfield
Starts off with modest self-portrait.