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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Are ‘Coercive Interrogation Techniques’ Torture?
A shocking sign of the times that we are having a debate about the appropriateness of torture.
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Alain Finkielkraut Called ‘New Neo-reactionary’
Organizations and bodies that threatened to sue him for racism have changed their minds.
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Anti-intellectualism in Murkan Life
Until bird flu comes along, that is.
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Muslim Brotherhood Gains Seats in Egypt
The Muslim Brotherhood secured 34 seats, 19 more than it holds in the outgoing parliament.
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The Enlightenment and the Left
Enlightenment key to debates around universalism, truth, human rights, liberty, religious extremism.
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What a Mess
Ed Vulliamy investigates the background of the Birmingham riot.
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Buy Baby Jesus
Advertisers push ‘true meaning of Christmas.’
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The Smoke and Mirrors of the Illusory Self
Not coincidentally, the deepest mysteries of philosophy are also the universal concerns of drama.
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Michael Ruse is Puzzled by US Religiosity
Incredible ideas about world history lead to moral drives in the present.
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Outright Hostility to Literature in English Departments
Because complex aesthetic texts tend to be concerned with personal, moral, not political, matters.
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Kedar Deshpande Reviews Amartya Sen
Rejects cultural relativity and cherry-picking Western academics and chauvinistic Indian nationalists.
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Steve Fuller Replies to Michael Bérubé
It all started with Fuller’s comment on Meera Nanda’s book at Amazon…
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Adults Should Take a Sickbag to ‘Narnia’
‘Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion.’
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When in Doubt, Call It Munchausen’s by Proxy
Like many another secret world the Family Division was liable to be swept by pseudo-scientific manias.
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The Guardian Used to be a Secular Paper
But that was then, editor says cheerfully.
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Wikipedia and the Accuracy Problem
Universe of global communication and research includes volunteer vandals with poison-pen intellects.
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Brothers of Hatan Surucu on Trial for Her Murder
Mothers seek solidarity by forcing daughters to submit to the same hardship and suffering.
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Narnia Tripe
To be ‘morally mature’ is to ‘acknowledge’ a lot of nonsense because there are different concepts of reality.
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Shops Withdraw ‘Jerry Springer’ Opera DVDs
Ten Christians whined to Sainsbury’s and that was enough.