Lord Desai tells NH of worrying sectarianism in fundamentalist ‘human rights’ group.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Norm Geras on the Path Out of Denial
Idea that Euston Manifesto is pro-war is a result of misreading of the geography of the left.
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Today ‘Interviews’ Flemming Rose [audio]
Don’t listen if you have high blood pressure.
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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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35th Skeptics’ Circle
Hosted by a creationist guest.
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Susan Jacoby Says No Thanks to Goddy Politics
Framers of the Constitution did not write, as they might have, ‘we the people under God’.
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Conflicting Opinion Drives Scientific Advance
A further step down a well defined road wins easier acceptance than a deviation from the beaten track.
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Happy Birthday J S Mill
Missouri town enforces family values via law against unmarried couples with children.
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Abuse Plagues Muslim Women in Germany
Forced marriages often turn into violent homes.
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Dworkin on Cost-benefit Analysis of Human Rights
We insist on these rights even though the majority would be more comfortable if we ignored them.
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Petition in Support of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Homa Arjomand, Maryam Namazie, Irshad Manji, Caroline Fourest have signed.
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Doctors Criticize Bogus Treatments
Letter from 13 doctors seen as challenge to Prince C’s campaign for ‘complementary therapies’.
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Ally of Prince C Calls Signers ‘Clinical Barons’
Director of Royal Homeopathic hospital said doctors’ attitude amounted to ‘medical apartheid’.
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Murder Conviction in Birmingham Riot Case
‘Members’ of the ‘black community’ fought with ‘members’ of the ‘Asian community’ over a rumour.
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Where Does Happiness Come From?
The gods, fate, genes, a thermostat.
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Hitchens on the Harassment of Hirsi Ali
One might have expected a more robust defense of her position from the Dutch and the international left.
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Everyone Who Sees This Will Be Offended
I feel humiliated. I want to humiliate the person who did this to an extent that he never works again.
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Discourse is Not the Only Reality
The left went wrong when it devalued knowledge as merely a masked form of power,
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Old Norm and Young Nick at Euston
Success of Euston Manifesto suggests there is a vein of rational progressivism on the left.
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Can Historians Judge Contemporary Presidents?
Historians need to wait and see how things turn out before getting too far along in their assessments.