The left mocks reason and so does the right, so what does that leave?
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Carole Angier Argues with Eidinow and Edmunds
They present the debate as between reason and feeling, and they choose feeling.
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Caving in to Religious Bigots – Again
Nick Cohen talks to Arjun Malik of the Hindu Human Rights campaign.
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Women Dissidents Abused in Iranian Prisons
‘For these people, religion is only a tool for dictatorship and abuse.’
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Blasphemy Law Used for Intimidation in Pakistan
‘The sections of the penal code fail to define blasphemy; anyone can interpret them.’
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Entelechy Journal Reviews Why Truth Matters
Claims the book is ‘beautifully written, and sprinkled with passages of both insight and literary value’.
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Credulous Review of Rousseau’s Dog
A ‘wonderfully readable account of two very silly men’ – Rousseau and Hume. Hmm.
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Religious Groups Compete for Victim Status
Sunny Hundal says closure of Husain exhibition is just the latest. Inayat comments.
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Calcutta Telegraph on Husain Cancellation
Asia House bowed to pressure from Hindu Forum of Britain.
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Asians in Media Reports on Cancellation
Says ‘two paintings were destroyed and “threats” were made by irate Hindu vandals.’
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Hindu Forum of Britain’s Press Release
Husain’s ‘offensive paintings of Hindu Gods and Goddesses in sexual poses have caused outrage’.
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Closure of MF Husain Exhibition
Meghnad Desai on a group which under the guise of Hindu human rights is practising censorship.
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Scott McLemee on the Euston Manifesto
Too few questions about Iraq; commenters, including signer H E Baber, disagree.
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More Than 3000 Killed in Java Earthquake
6.2 quake flattened buildings in a densely-populated area south of the city of Yogyakarta.
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Facts Do Matter
When story-tellers use the word ‘fact’ they have a responsibility to be accurate.
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Milt Rosenberg Talks to Frederick Crews
On topics from ID to psychoanalysis, as collected in Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays.
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Iraqi Athletes Killed for Wearing Shorts
Tennis coach and two players shot; leaflets had been distributed warning residents not to wear shorts.
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Forget Leonardo, Check Out Athanasius Kircher
Nothing to do with Dan Brown, so that’s a plus.
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After Freud
Freud’s model of repression emerged out of the age of the steam train.
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What Mind-body Problem?
Consciousness has had philosophers hot and bothered ever since Nagel’s bat essay.