HIV-positive woman who refused to have her children tested still refuses to ‘second-guess.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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 on a Difficulty in Democracy
What if a parliamentary majority wants to take away other people’s rights?
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Another Mock Dictionary
Leadership: An undefined quality attributed to bosses on public occasions.
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Scott McLemee Reads the Classier Tabloid
How does anyone keep up with all the secondary literature, let alone the two-headed alien babies?
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Writer’s Choice: Christopher Hitchens
A life of solidarity on the part of a defeated nation and an oppressed class.
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Psychological Warfare Over le Livre Noir
Critics say Freudian techniques have been elevated to an ‘untouchable dogma’.
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Weird Choices
Hollywood leery of comedy with ‘Muslim’ in title, happy with sexist displays and penis jokes.
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Religion Not Necessary to Morality After All
New research says religious belief can contribute to social problems.
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‘Inspiring’ Biographies of Suicide Jihadists
Biographies of jihadists contain many elements of the mythic cult of martyrdom.
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Tate Defends its Decision; Artist Says it’s Daft
‘You can’t act stupidly and not make the opposition feel that they have a case.’
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Tate Bans Work for Fear of Offending Muslims
‘The Muslim Council of Britain was not consulted on the issue.’
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London Does Not Need Art to Tiptoe Around
Consider, rather, the rest of us who demand, now more than ever, intelligent, challenging thought.
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Tate Cites Cutting of Books as Causing Concern
Sacranie wishes MCB had been consulted first on what offends Muslims.
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Science Can’t Produce Instant Answers
A single year’s observation does not permit the divination of a long-term trend.
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Richard Wolin on Jürgen Habermas
Are contemporary philosophers up to explaining post-secular societies?
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Sensitivity is Today’s Soft Despotism
The notion of sensitivity led to less toleration rather than more.
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Amputation for Stealing a Motorbike
Nigerian Islamic judges have ordered that a teenager from Niger have his hand cut off.
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Scruton and Midgley Write Memoirs
Between confidence and anxiety.
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The Washington Times Reviews Scruton
For Burke, society is held together by custom, tradition, and prejudice.
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Tobacco Companies Turn to Subliminal Advertising
Red and white furniture, pictures of cowboys, that kind of thing.