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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Eastern Philosophy
‘What then is Indian and Chinese philosophy, and what reason is there for studying it?’
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Dennett on Religion
‘Can just any religion give lives meaning, in a way that we should honor and respect?’
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Do Law Schools Need Ideological Diversity?
Brian Leiter and Peter Schuck debate the issue.
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Carlin Romano Reviews Cosmopolitanism
In Cosmopolitanism, Appiah expands the thinking of his previous book, The Ethics of Identity.
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Under Half of Britons Accept Evolution
Over 40% of those questioned think creationism or ID should be taught in science lessons.
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Religious Groups Shape History Textbooks
Historical accuracy can conflict with ‘enhancing the pride and self-esteem of believers.’
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Review of Debating Design
Cambridge University Press gives Dembski and ID more academic cred than they should have.
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Culturally Relative Science in Australian Schools
One curriculum describes Western science as ‘only one form among the sciences of the world.’
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Darwin the Geologist
It was a geological underpinning that led to much of what was most original in his work.
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Why We Should Remember Darwin the Geologist
Sandra Herbert examines the ways Darwin understood changes in time and space.
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Does Liberalism Need Multiculturalism?
The politics of recognition focuses on groups and cultural belonging.
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Stupid Extra Words Are Bad and Stupid
Would you like a nourishing beverage with that?
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PZ Myers on Another Religious Assault on Education
The Vedic Foundation and Hindu Education Foundation go after California textbooks.
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David Bromwich on Eagleton on Terrorism
‘The nice balance of anarchy with absolutism strikes me as a literary man’s conceit.’
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George is Out
Left to a chorus of boos.
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Historians and Hindu Nationalists in Sacramento
Disagreeing over revisions to history textbooks.
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Friends of South Asia v Vedic Foundation
Repetition of recent attempts in India to inject sectarian doctrines into history books.
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Festival of Muslim Cultures Refuses Gay Event
Director says festival is non-ideological and non-political and non-sectarian. Eh?
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Kristeva to Lecture in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
‘In Kristeva’s view, clarity and direct logic are not a sought-after value.’