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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Earthquake Death Toll Nears 2000
Several villages wiped out; Kashmir is the worst hit area.
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Bush’s Citation of God ‘Not Literal’
So he uses the word metaphorically? Interesting.
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BBC Backs Away From Bush God Story
White House said ‘he never’ so programme editors were put off.
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Rania al-Baz Flees Saudi Arabia
TV presenter shocked S.A. by publishing photographs of herself after husband beat her.
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Secularists Meet to Defy Rise in Religion
Azam Kamguian, Maryam Namazie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali nominated for awards. Hurrah!
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What Would Wittgenstein Do?
New philosophy site aims to connect general public with ideas and history.
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Ask Philosophers
Go on, ask them.
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Lack of Qualifications is a Virtue
Education and relevant experience just make people think they’re smart.
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Nick Cohen on Anti-semitism on the Left
The issue is whether the liberal left is as keen on universal principles as it pretends.
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Vatican Restricts Media Briefings
Several bishops said too much information was getting out.
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It Once Was Lost, But Now It’s Found
A stunning jazz concert in 1957 was thought lost forever, but then…
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Not the Edsel of Social Science After All?
Maybe questions about sexuality and homosexuality are central to diagnosing authoritarianism.
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Investigating Happiness
Tragic legacy of Freud: many are bitter about the past, passive about the future.
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Sartre and Beauvoir, Authenticity and Lying
How did Sartre justify deceptions? By resorting to ‘a temporary moral code.’
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Irreconcilable Divide Between Science and Religion
One side sees matter and energy, the other side wants Something Extra.
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Carlin Romano Reviews Michael Ruse
Ruse claims evolution often operates as a worldview that competes with religion.
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Michael Ignatieff Recommends Accepting Truth
Canada matters as a liberal democracy struggling to build a society that includes all communities.
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The Movie in Your Head
Is consciousness a seamless experience or a string of fleeting images?
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Look Inside: Just More Machinery
Our sense of who we are and our feelings are a product of biological processes in the brain.