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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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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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A Broad and Withering Opinion
Judge cited ‘breathtaking inanity’ of board’s decision and board members’ ‘striking ignorance’ about ID.
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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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Judge’s Decision in Dover Case [pdf]
‘while encouraging students to keep an open mind and explore alternatives to evolution, it offers no scientific alternative’