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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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Can Humanists Talk to Postmodernists?
No. It’s this ‘new metaphysics’ thing, you see.
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Paul Kurtz on Skepticism about Religious Claims
Skeptical inquirer finds inconclusive evidence, thus insufficient reason to believe, that God exists.
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Juan Cole and Yale
Scholarship and politics got thoroughly entangled.
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Peter Singer on Freedom of Speech
Covers both ridicule of religion and Holocaust denial.
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Scott McLemee at University Presses Conference
Books will stay around at least for awhile.
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Nonsense from National Review (No, really?!)
Naughty Richard Dawkins hurts people’s feelings by telling the truth. How howwid.
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Bloom on Goldstein on Spinoza
As in Epicurus and Lucretius, Spinoza’s God is scarcely distinguishable from Nature, and indifferent to us.
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Update on Reza Moradi
Keith Porteous Wood of the NSS found him a pro bono lawyer; they await the summons.
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Review of Anthony Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism
Conversation is one way of habituating people to appreciate differences in others.
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On Ronald Aronson on Sartre and Camus
A provocative account of the contribution they made to modern literature and philosophy.
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Ann Coulter is not a ‘National Treasure’ [link fixed]
Spinsanity has documented many distortions in Coulter’s earlier books.
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What’s Up With Democrats Against Estate Tax?
Not a lot of clear thinking, anyway.
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Principles are Good Only if They are Good
Just saying you have some isn’t good enough.
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Gurinder Osan on Erroneous ‘Merit’ Argument
Response to quotas for backward castes in education reveals unattractive features of Indian society.
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Peter Beaumont Reads Noam Chomsky
‘Chomsky has allowed bile and rhetoric to replace intellectual rigour in his latest diatribe.’
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Microscope on Medialens
Peter Beaumont is expecting another Medialens-ing.
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Nick Cohen on Backroom Deals
Revolting and typical that largely male employers and trade unionists struck deals which failed to give women their due.