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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Cass Sunstein on William Rehnquist
He limited judicial activism in one direction and expanded it in another.
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Matthew Lockwood on Anti-developmentalism
Argues that African states actively discourage business, trade and innovation.
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John Gray Reviews Thomas Friedman
Neoliberals lack Marx’s insights into self-destructive qualities of capitalism.
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Bush’s Islamic Republic
Irony that US will help establish Middle East’s second Shiite Islamic state.
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White House Chooses Interesting Strategy
Keep insisting no one could have foreseen results of major hurricane despite evidence to contrary.
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Plan for New Law on Forced Marriages
Some worry children will not want to see parents prosecuted.
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Nick Cohen on Foreign Office Fantasy
FO has abandoned Arab liberals in quest for approval of their enemies on the religious right.
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What Determines the Meanings of Words?
The question has tantalized philosophers as well as judges.
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God Ain’t Listening
Would all-powerful God shrug as Katrina sliced into America’s belly like a huge circular saw?
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Stephen Law Reviews Julian Baggini
Thought experiments can induce an overwhelming sense of intellectual vertigo.
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Satan Was Hired for Work by Postmodernism
‘I know some people are willing to kill anyone who is not a pluralist.’
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Katrina Versus Complacent Journalism
Reporters suddenly ditched the deference.
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Sharia Court Protest Spreads to Europe
Protests are planned September 8 in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf and Stockholm.
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Hurricane Raises Awkward Questions
And awkward answers, too.
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Colm Tóibín on Edmund Wilson
Not just a two-bit book reviewer.
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Allan Bloom and the Conservative Mind
He repudiated most political, religious and economic premises of neocons.
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Bush’s Science Problem
Conclusions changed for political reasons by people who have not done the scientific work.
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The New Republic on the ‘Life’s Tough’ View
True that life is tough, not true that there’s nothing that can be done about disasters.
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FEMA Head Fired From Previous Job
GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant experience to qualify him for the job.