Conservative group is offering students at UCLA money to tape lectures by professors.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Scott McLemee: Academic Bloggers do Lunch
Continuing discussions that hadn’t started at the restaurant and wouldn’t end any time soon.
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Dutch MPs Consider Burqa Ban
‘It’s a medieval symbol, a symbol against women,’ says MP Geert Wilders.
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Imperial College Bans Veil Over Face
Federation of Student Islamic Societies says ban is ‘unacceptable’.
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Science ‘Not for Normal People’
Students questioned said science is important but demanding.
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Spot the Orientalist
When Afary and Anderson deconstruct the follies of Foucault, they disconcert many on the left.
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Jesus Invented Everything
Everything, Rodney Stark insists. Nobody else invented anything. Jesus did it all.
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Open Letter to Congress on NSA Spying
Dworkin, Tribe, Sullivan, Nolan, Lederman et al.
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‘We Are All One’ is Sentimental Eyewash
Many important concepts are subject to problems of vagueness between one and many.
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Iris Young on Blame v Responsibility After Katrina
Arguably, more harm and injustice result from thoughtless negligence than from malevolence.
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Meera Nanda on Vedic Creationism in America
ID-ers have enthusiastic allies among Hare Krishnas propagating their theory of ‘Vedic creationism.’
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Gazette des Femmes Names Woman of the Year
Ontario came within a hair of passing Sharia; Homa Arjomand is an incredible campaigner.
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Hollywood on a Mission to Homosexualize America
‘If America isn’t watching these films, why are they winning the awards?’ asks loony.
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Celibate Priest Lectures World on Lust
Pope thinks ‘you can’t really be free and happy unless you accept God’s plan for human life.’
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New Orleans Mayor Says God is Angry at US
So he throws hurricanes at it.
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What’s All This Then?
Excess of zeal allows tabloid right to yell weariest of cliches: political correctness gone mad.
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Carlin Romano on Differing Views of Ben Franklin
Wave of hagiography in Franklin biography marginalizes issues like slave-trade activities.
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Bishop of Motherwell Talks Dangerous Crap
Says Church needs to stop cowering before government’s politically approved doctrines.
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Ian Bell Reviews ‘Root of all Evil?’
Agrees that ‘Atheism is life-affirming in a way that religion can never be.’
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Supremes Uphold Assisted Suicide Law
Justices voted 6-3; ruling could free other states to pass laws like Oregon’s.