Ayatollahs and MPs in Iran want ban on women in football stadiums to remain.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Martin Kettle on the Euston Manifesto
A protest against the perceived obsession, dogmatism and influence of post-Iraq left politics.
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Whither British Philosophers
Unable to project themselves as effective public scrutineers of our mission and morals.
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Claire Harman on Bragg’s Twelve
Arkwright’s patent served to restrict knowledge rather than spread it.
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On de Botton’s Architecture of Happiness
‘Nobody could claim these are great revelations. But they have the virtue of being true.’
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Alan Ryan on Jane Addams
She presents us with almost too much to think about.
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Laurie Taylor on Bragg’s Twelve
Academics never nearby enough to moderate some of his less fortunate populist urges.
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John Sutherland on Bragg’s Twelve
Bragg has established himself over the past decades as a fearlessly dedicated popular educator.
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Review of Sen’s Identity and Violence
Tunku Varadarajan finds it pretty but unrealistic.
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Vatican Considers Condom Rules
Might allow married people with HIV to use condoms.
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Self-awareness Switched Off During Concentration
Brain assumes a robotic functionality when it has to concentrate on a difficult, timed task.
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Women’s Autonomy Under Threat
Religious enclaves encouraging women to go back to when they were men’s property, not their own.
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Richard Schoch Skeptical of Positive Psychology
Lasting and profound happiness isn’t about feeling good, it’s about being good.
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Is a Happy Human the Same as a Good Human?
What would Herbert Spencer think?
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The Disturbing World of Implicit Bias
We may not always think what we think we think.
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Wot’s an Intellectual?
A bag of wind? A small-breasted man? A woman who doesn’t wash much?
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Boredom
Is boredom emotional recuperation, or is it just boredom?
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Evolution Should be Taught as Fact, not Theory
We should no longer talk of the theory of evolution as ‘just an idea’, says Richard Pike.
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Byatt on Roth
Philip Roth is the great recorder of Darwinian Man, ‘a poor, bare, forked animal’.
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Creationism Conference in Derbyshire
To hear academics defend the view that God made the Earth in six days about 6,000 years ago.