Would have agreed with Trilling’s praise of Hawthorne’s ‘dissent from the orthodoxies of dissent.’
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 Call to Reduce Religions’ Role in Schools
Delegates attending NUT conference concerned at influence of fundamentalists in state schools.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir and the National Union of Students
NUS president-elect says rhetoric may have changed, but they are still homophobic, sexist, racist.
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Hilary Mantel Reviews a Biography of Robespierre
Why was his purity fatal? Because it seemed to be absolute.
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Carlin Romano on Amos Oz on Fanaticism
‘But this is clearly humanistic mush.’
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Sunday Herald Interviews Todd Gitlin
‘Without opposition, without dissent, politics cease and democracy dies.’
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Whither the Village Voice?
Investigative reporter fired, two prize-winning writers quit, months after New Times Media merger.
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Alain Finkielkraut on Fanatics Without Borders
Opposition to humanitarian intervention is becoming more and more peremptory and strident.
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Democracy as Cultural Imperialism
Should we say that arbitrary arrest, torture, slavery are not ruled out by universal principles?
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The Bish Strikes Back
And recycles the usual drivel.
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Link Between School Donors and Peerages
Downing St admits two donors were nominated for peerages because of support for academy schools.
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‘Scientism’ Charge is the All-purpose Smear
When at a loss, say ‘you are making a religion of science.’
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Controversy a Threat to Funding of Academies
Could put off potential sponsors who fear they will be seen as grasping for peerages.
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Whither the West?
ICA discussion with Chris Smith, Richard Koch, Roger Osborne, Jeremy Stangroom.
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Whither Pop Culture?
At an academic conference, of course.
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John Lloyd on the Euston Manifesto
Depth of the split forces an explicit recognition of two broad camps on the left.
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Religious Cleansing in Baghdad
Every day brings chilling accounts of people being burnt and bullied from their homes.
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Kevin Phillips on Theocons and Theocrats
Pervasive pressure for theological correctness.
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Bradford and Vienna
‘The development of a European Islam is, in a sense, at a caterpillar stage.’
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Controversy Over Danish TV Host’s Hijab
Head of Women for Freedom calls choice of co-host an insult to Danish and Muslim women.