‘The social dynamics of zero-sum marriage are ugly.’
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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Stangroom and Benson Admit to Being Liars
But urge others to tell the truth.
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Ian McEwan on The Selfish Gene as Literature
In which the pursuit of truth and the excitement of new ideas is conveyed in luminous prose.
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Mullah Krekar Tells Oslo Newspaper What’s What
‘We’re the ones who will change you.’
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O’Reilly is a Beyond-irony Populist
A rich white guy aligned with the ruling party who has the guts to stand up to the élitists.
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Sen Talks to Bangladesh’s ‘The New Nation’
Choose your identity of your own free will; don’t slap single-identity labels on people.
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Martha Nussbaum Reviews ‘Covering’
Yoshino’s book is convincing, but needs more of a comparative and historical dimension.
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Terry Eagleton Reviews ‘Absent Minds’
Collini demolishes the myth that intellectuals are always oppositional.
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First Chapter of The Seduction of Unreason
Reason as an analytical solvent to dogma, superstition, and unwarranted social authority.
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India Looks into Extraconstitutional Sharia Courts
The Constitution prohibits discrimination on grounds of caste or religion.
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Review of Breaking the Spell
Dennett says scientific study of religion includes possibility that religious beliefs are true.
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Andrew Anthony Replies to Madeleine Bunting
The reason we still hold to an understanding of rationality that is over 200 years old is that it works.
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Stephen Eric Bronner on the Enlightenment
Tradition, religious faith, social hierarchy, unearned privilege, arbitrary authority were its targets.
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Sen on Why Religious Identity Isn’t Destiny
‘A person belongs to many different groups, of which a religious affiliation is only one.’
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Jonathan Wolff on Animal Testing
Experimenters should be schooled not only in the scientific issues, but the moral issues too.
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Johann Hari: We Need Mill More Today Than Ever
Mill is our contemporary and our guide in a way that is true of very few philosophers.
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India Sex Selection Doctor Busted
Estimated that 10m female foetuses may have been terminated in India in the past 20 years.
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Abdul Rahman Arrives in Italy
Italy has granted him asylum; politicians in Afghanistan are outraged.
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Islam and Religious Freedom
There is disagreement among Muslim scholars as to the limits of religious freedom.
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Little Atoms at March for Free Expression [mp3]
Hear Maryam Namazie, Peter Tatchell, Labi Siffre, Johann Hari, Keith Porteous Wood.