Wittgensteinian on sociological questions, essentialist on truth conditions.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Endurance is One Thing, Acceptance is Another
Just as disagreement and criticism are both different from censorship.
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But Isn’t It Her Job to Join That Debate?
Can someone whose religion forbids abortion and contraception defend women’s rights in parliament?
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Ofcom Rules on Dawkins on Religion [pdf – p. 10]
Not in breach. He said it was a polemic, and there was plenty of debate.
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Guy Invokes God, Visits Lions
God will save me if he exists, guy said. Guess what.
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Australia’s Wackiest Postmodernists
Not so much a theory as an attitude.
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Hemming on Upliftment
How does postmodernism conceive of the sublime?
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Norm on the Sublime
Can a dislocated, not to say broken-down, subjectivity create her subjectivity anew?
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Shalom Lappin on the Boycott
Little point in debating boycotters who don’t accept basic principles of non-discrimination.
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More Video Game ‘Spiritual Experiences’
You are on a mission to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, secularists.
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Video Games That Offer a ‘Spiritual Experience’
Like Eternal Forces, set in New York where soldiers fight ‘demons’…
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Homophobia Part of Religious Freedom
Bishops defend ‘right to hold deep faith convictions’ that homosexuality is wrong – and act on them.
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Roger Scruton on Francis Fukuyama
Kojève could not set eyes on any human achievement without relishing its future ruin.
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Pro-test March Taking Place in Oxford
Supporters of the new Oxford Biomedical Research Facility rally; B&W webmaster is there.
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Bush Tries the ‘Defend Marriage’ Tactic Again
Constitutional amendment necessary because of activist judges and slumping popularity.
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Eve Garrard Answers Catherine Bennett
Who paints a picture of women in politics as passive little girls.
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WHO Calls FGM a Form of Torture
‘By medicalising it, we will be endorsing this practice,’ Joy Phumaphi of WHO told the BBC.
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WHO Press Release on FGM Study
‘FGM is a practice steeped in culture and tradition but it should not be allowed to carry on.’
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WHO Fact Sheet on Female Genital Mutilation
Number of girls and women who have undergone FGM is estimated at between 100 and 140 million.
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Full Report on WHO Study on FGM
Women with FGM significantly more likely than those without FGM to have adverse obstetric outcomes.