Critics worry about ‘demonising’ teenage parents.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Hizb ut-Tahrir Using Anti-racist Front Organization
Hizb ut-Tahrir has been recruiting under the name Stop Islamophobia at UCL and other institutions.
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A S Byatt on Self-Portraits
Iris Murdoch believed Rembrandt’s self-portraits were a philosophic attempt on the truth.
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Nick Cohen on One Woman’s War
Maryam Namazie’s obscurity remains baffling. She ought to be a liberal poster girl.
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October Bulletin from Middle East Women
News related to women’s rights from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Australia, Germany, more.
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Laura Bush and Identity Politics
It’s sexist and elitist to think Harriet Miers is not ideal Supreme Court nominee.
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UN Withdraws Non-essential Staff From Darfur
Increase in violence has made most of west Darfur off-limits to aid agencies.
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Iranian Women Bloggers
Why don’t women in villages ‘endanger Islam’ by not wearing the hijab?
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Roger Scruton: Democracy or Theocracy?
Secular government is the sine qua non of democracy, and theocracy is its natural opponent.
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The Prospect List is a Stupid List
It’s not about the best or the most important public intellectuals, but the most famous ones.
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Delusions Come in Waves
Mumbo-Jumbo confronts hydra-headed threat to intellectual and scientific foundations.
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A Scientific Theory is Not a Guess
A scientific theory is a machine that produces sensible explanations.
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Adam Smith Students Change Name
Newly named Jennie Lee College Students’ Association refuses to use Smith’s name in correspondence.
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Students Drop Bad Role Model Smith
‘This isn’t an attack upon Adam Smith as a person.’ Whew!
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Mixed Reviews of Pinter Nobel
Stoppard, Frayn, Hitchens, Redgrave C.
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Bouyeri, Hofstad Network, Burqa Ban
Acting out of ‘religious conviction’ is not necessarily problem-free.
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Liberals Must Return to Their Paleo-liberal Roots
There’s a faction on the left whose sympathies lie with nostalgic fascists.
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Gray on Grayling on Descartes
Shows Descartes to be more interesting than the closeted introvert in standard histories of philosophy.
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Battle Between Enlightenment and Medievalism
Religious thinking still permeates public life as the religious occupy positions of power.
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Incompetent Writers Make History Too
Hitler offers a vision of revitalization and rebirth following the perceived decay of the liberal era.