Plans to appeal.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Many Welsh Schools Break Law by Not Praying
State schools are required to ‘worship’ every day.
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Is ‘Little Red Book’ Story a Hoax?
Librarians commenting on this article are skeptical.
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UMass Dartmouth Library Statement
The Library has not been visited by agents seeking information about borrowing patterns of patrons.
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A University Librarian Wonders
Short of a court order or National Security Letter, libraries would never report on a student’s reading habits.
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New Rousseau Biography
Passionate eloquence about cardiology.
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Put Jesus Back in Xmas Sales
Fanatics give the impression they would be pleased if a depiction of JC were used to sell cars.
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Simon Critchley on Derrida
His reading of certain philosophers completely transformed our understanding of their work.
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Richard Shusterman on a Philosophe Impolitique
Bourdieu has shown he can mobilize trade unions and social movements, not just graduate seminars.
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Literary Canon Posher Than Literary Spreadsheet
Canon debates are really over the economy of prestige within academic institutions.
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Interview With Arthur Danto
The impulse to make art is as powerful as it’s ever been.
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A Broad and Withering Opinion
Judge cited ‘breathtaking inanity’ of board’s decision and board members’ ‘striking ignorance’ about ID.
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New Biography of Hannah Arendt
Laure Adler says Arendt was blind about the Holocaust. Hmm.
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Eisenhower Meets Said Ramadan
Islam was seen as a barrier to the spread of Marxist ideology among the masses.
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Literacy Problem
The issue is the declining ability to learn: the inability of students to assimilate information.
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‘There are Some Problems Here’
Average literacy of college educated Americans declined significantly from 1992 to 2003.
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Not in Public School Science Classroom
‘We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board’s real purpose.’
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Judge Rules Against ‘Intelligent Design’
Says several school board members repeatedly lied to cover their motives.
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Unseen Power Theory Ruled Out
Now Pat Robertson will be really cross.