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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Strange and Disquieting Double Standards
Poisonous paranoia is sort of expected from some people but not others.
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Is Journalism About Truth or Diverse Opinion?
Lines between what constitutes opinion and what constitutes truth are almost extravagantly blurred.
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Seyla Benhabib on Religion and Politics
Why the US and Europe differ.
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Mathematicians See ‘Proof’
Not much actual math, but the mathematicians are recognizable.
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If Religion is All That’s Left
It’s not surprising that people turn to it.
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Richard Dawkins on Gerin Oil Junkies
If administered chronically in childhood, Gerin oil can permanently modify the brain.
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Evangelical Graduate School
The concept of worldview has come to occupy a central place in Christian higher education.
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‘Starving the Beast’ Not Always Best Plan
With Katrina, conservatives got what they were looking for: paralyzed government.
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Scott McLemee on Class, Blind Spots, Reading
Social mobility is not always pleasant.
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Harvard’s ‘Secret Court Files’
A 1920 purge of gay students.
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Prisoners Left Locked in Cells During Katrina
Human Rights Watch: water rising, no food, water or electricity.
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Vatican to Ban Gay Priests
Vow of celibacy no longer good enough.
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Nightmare Piled on Nightmare Piled on Nightmare
Oxygen tanks ignite bus fire that kills 24 elderly patients fleeing hurricane.
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Why These Intellectuals and not Those?
Lists are always weird; this one is no exception.
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The List
Do popes and clerics qualify as intellectuals?
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Katha Pollitt on How Fundamenatalism Helps
It prepares us to give up on everything.
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Killing Over Tiny Doctrinal Differences
‘Reason doesn’t get a look-in on the streets of Belfast or Baghdad today.’
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Profile of Mary Midgley
Still says Dawkins is responsible for misunderstanding of his work by careless readers.
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Johann Hari on Wal-Mart and Workers’ Rights
‘There is a constant pressure to push productivity beyond what’s possible, to cut wages.’