‘Identity labels have nothing to do with how anyone actually experiences life.’
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Pamuk Trial Halted on First Day
Trials concerning freedom of thought should never happen in the first place and should not be prolonged.
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Xian Right All Upset About Xmas Without X
White House pets saying ‘happy holidays’ is just too much.
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Human Rights Watch on ‘Ministers of Murder’
Ahmadinejad has packed his government with officials responsible for serious human rights abuses.
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HRW Page on ‘Ministers of Murder’
Human Rights Watch reports.
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Mistake to Hop on Islamist Bandwagon
Trendy government is prepared to pursue communalist policy redolent of colonies.
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Women Forbidden to Use Public Transport
Women in northern Nigeria forbidden to ride on motorbike taxis; religious marshals enforce the law.
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Pamuk to go on Trial for ‘Insulting Turkishness’
High-profile prosecution has caused a stir in Brussels.
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Can’t Contextualize Any More
For Holocaust denial by a head of state, the usual apologetics won’t work.
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‘Theory’ Such Old News, Says CHE, Yawning
Then gives pile of quotations showing opposite. Very ironic, very theoretical.
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Hitchens Remembers Gene McCarthy
McCarthy’s 1968 campaign is one of the best correctives to the stupid cult of the Kennedy family.
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Munira Mirza on Race Awareness Training
Diversity training may reinforce the sense of difference between people.
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Ahmadinejad Calls Holocaust a ‘Myth’
Calls for Jews to move to Alaska.
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Chris Mooney Reviews Tom Bethell
Bethell takes the political right’s ‘war on science’ to a whole new level.
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Political Islam a Challenge to French Secularism
Theocracy rears its head again.
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Pointless Execution Goes Forward
Reformed man doing useful work killed anyway.
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When Did Lit Crit and Aesthetics Break Up?
Interpretation is the revenge of moralism upon art.
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‘Publicly Denigrating Turkish Identity’ is a Crime
Angry nationalism sees freedom of thought as a Western invention.
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Where Are the Big Questions?
In the philosophy and history departments, for two.
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German Officers Knew About Holocaust
According to newly revealed transcripts of conversations between captured generals.