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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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Brief, Passionate BNP-Xian Voice Liaison Ends
Giles Fraser thinks Xianity incompatible with racism; commenters raise eyebrow.
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Alexandra Simonon Says Walter is Wrong
Opposing cultural relativism as Euston group does is a strong commitment to women’s rights everywhere.
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Todd Gitlin on the Academic Left
Question of how theory X diverges from theory Y takes precedence over question of X’s or Y’s truth value or lack of it.
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Irshad Manji Ponders Ahmadinejad
To the fringe of true believers, doomsday politics makes complete sense.
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Raymond Tallis on Mary Midgley’s Owl of Minerva
The tendency to narrow philosophy to a technical exercise is one she has vigorously opposed.
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Bush Asserts His Right to Ignore Laws
Claims power to set aside any statute passed by Congress that conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
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Niall Stanage on the Euston Manifesto
It ‘may sound like a lengthy statement of the obvious. But, in a way, that’s the point.’
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John Kenneth Galbraith
The Affluent Society one of those rare works that forces a nation to re-examine its values.