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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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March for Inoffensive Free Expression
No Motoons please. Okay but what’s the march for then?
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Susan Haack: ‘Pragmatism Old and New’ [pdf]
Contemporary Pragmatism, Volume 1, Number 1.
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Jacoby on Tenured Vacuity and Mock Radicalism
A fiery radical marches – but only only from the podium to the speaker’s table.
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This Thing About Meddling in Domestic Affairs
When it’s cartoons, meddling is virtuous; when it’s execution for conversion, meddling is naughty.
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Peerages for Sale
Whither purer than pure?
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Lecturer Suspended for IQ Claims
Claims about average intelligence among groups.
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Bullywatch
The Guardian urges mayor to ‘learn that sometimes the best thing he could do is shut up.’
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Amnesty International on Abdul Rahman
Freedom of religion and belief entails the right to replace current belief with another or adopt atheist views.
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Motoon Imam Threatens to Blow Up a Guy
TV crew secretly filmed Akkari threatening to have founder of Democratic Muslims bombed.
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Atheists Most Distrusted Minority in US
No kidding.
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The Selfish Gene Event
Dennett, Ridley, McEwan, Krebs, Dawkins speak.
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Blow Up Those Guilty Women
‘The biggest nightclub in central London, no one can put their hands up and say they are innocent – those slags dancing around.’
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On Wieseltier on Dennett’s Breaking the Spell
‘The first question…about Wieseltier’s review is why he was asked to submit it in the first place.’
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Kenan Malik on ‘Too Much Respect’
‘There is no reason to treat Muslims—or, indeed, any religious believers—as special cases.’
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Ignatieff on Torture
Problems begin when we descend into the particular, when we ask what exactly counts as torture.
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Lords Overturn School Jilbab Ruling
Law lords verturned a court ruling that Begum’s human rights were violated.
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Annual Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund Meeting
Maryam Namazie asks how can it be Islamophobic to say people should be able to live a 21st century life?
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Climate for Discussing Religion Has Chilled
‘The momentum is with those people who use their particular, narrow faith to silence other voices.’
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Swedish Foreign Minister Quits Over Cartoon Fuss
Laila Freivalds resigned after allegations she shut down far-right website for soliciting new caricatures.