Zizek a ‘card-carrying Lacanian’ who speaks more excitedly about politics than Lacan.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ishtiaq Ahmed: Trust and Solidarity Universal Too
Pose the question in a philosophical way: Are humans united or estranged in their essence?
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Just Two Little Words: ‘Natural Explanations’
Only reason to take out ‘natural explanations’ is to open the door to supernatural explanations.
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Sad Dupes Thesis Joins Enemy Within Idea
David Aaronovitch tries not to believe things for which there is no evidence.
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Pope Could Be Even More Reactionary
Lucky us then.
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Voltaire’s Enemy was the Infâme
Which was not JC but some of the forces of clerical reaction and feudal injustice.
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Gordon Wood Reviews Sean Wilentz
Avoids ‘bargain basement Nietzsche and Foucault’.
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Pollitt Reads Dowd, Who Doesn’t Read Pollitt
Dowd’s book is a Feminism Is Dead polemic, put through a Dowdian styleblender.
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Dowd Produces the Opposite of Synergy
Wisecracks are reductive and anti-ruminative; they don’t encourage deeper analysis, they stymie it.
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‘Analysis’ on Political Islam
What about Sudan?
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Victimising Professor Mubarak Ali
Ishtiaq Ahmed on a distinguished historian of Pakistan faced with absurd accusations.
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Warning of Epidemic of School Bullying in UK
‘Children are being brought up in a society where violence is the norm in many ways.’
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Nick Cohen Says Food is a Class Issue
A healthy eater would brand herself as a toff and be picked on for being ‘too healthy’ and ‘too brainy’.
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Epistemology Quiz
Undiscovered ants in the Amazon…
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A C Grayling on Libertines and Free Thought
Atheists were libertines, libertines were naughty, because atheists were naughty.
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Olivier Roy: Fundamentalists Conspicuously Absent
Contrary to the calls of many liberals, increased emphasis on multiculturalism is not the answer.
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French Intellectuals Speak Up at Last
Andre Glucksmann and Bernard-Henri Levy say a few words.
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Debate on ‘Faith’ Schools
British Humanist Association education officer debates Bishop of Guildford.
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Legal Action Against God, Resident in Heaven
‘God even claimed and received from me various goods and prayers in exchange for forgiveness.’ Cheater.
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Pat Robertson Pitches Fit at Dover Voters
Tells them to ask Darwin for help if disaster strikes.