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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Just Pay No Attention
Catholics have been perfecting the art of ignoring the Vatican for centuries.
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Schools Sued for Not Using This Garbage
Christians sue California schools for not using execrable Bob Jones U-published ‘books’.
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‘White Flight’ From Schools That Are Too Good
Schools ‘too’ academically rigorous, narrowly focused on such subjects as math and science.
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Secularism Without Secularization
The future of secular societies depends upon the cultivation of secular culture.
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Courtroom Bombs Raise Fears of Islamist State
Police, judges and lawyers told to ‘stop upholding man-made laws which go against Islam.’
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Royal Society President Warns of Fundamentalism
Such is the influence of groups that ignore scientific evidence that free inquiry is at risk.
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Forget Science and History, Learn to Feel
Schools to teach emotional literacy. Teachers feel unthrilled.
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Philosopher Alain Finkielkraut Apologizes
In Ha’aretz interview Finkielkraut underlined the lack of identification to France amongst many immigrants.
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Carl Rollyson on Lillian Hellman
‘Every biographer of Hellman must sooner or later come to terms with the fabrications in Hellman’s memoirs.’
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Simon Blackburn on Donald Davidson
In many circles he was something like a one-man church.
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Johann Hari Reviews Paul Berman
Not only an alumnus of 1968 rebellion; he is the keeper of its yearbook and its funeral director.
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Nicholas Lezard on ‘Urne Burial’
Neither parochial, nor philistine, nor hegemonic, nor mediocre.
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Roger Pearson’s Voltaire
The prototype of the committed intellectual; a lot more fun than many of his successors in the genus.
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Pamela Bone on Ian McEwan
‘Many people confuse criticism of religion – especially Islam – with racism.’
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ID Becoming Mandatory in Kansas?
Legislators micromanage university.
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Ni Putes Ni Soumises Organizes Demonstration
Against violence against women and the torching of one particular woman.
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Umberto Eco Points out the Obvious
Many people find religion consoling. Who knew?!
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‘Honour’ Killing Finished With Abortion
Father, brothers kill boyfriend, then send pregnant survivor to Spain for late abortion.
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Death Penalty for ‘Insults to Name of Prophet’
Pakistan’s blasphemy law frequently manipulated to settle scores or rouse religious tensions.