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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Tragically, This Guy is an MP
Your daughters, rape, beautiful daughters, rape, slobber, twitch.
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Rorty, Jacoby, Others on the Uses of Liberalism
Liberalism has always been a delicate plant. Perhaps it needs a greenhouse.
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Bible Study in Public High Schools in Texas
When urban legends end up in textbooks, that’s a problem.
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This Reporter Has Been Murdered
British in Iraq strengthen hand of Shiite organizations.
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Smug Puzzlement
‘Clever people disagree with me because they are bored.’ Is that why?
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State Schools Teach Blazerwearing
Evangelical millionaire car dealers fund ‘Christian values’ via schools.
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Barry Allen Reviews Simon Blackburn
‘A relativist is an imaginary being, like Mr. Pickwick or Mephistopheles.’
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Bagginian Thought Experiments to Play With
Bhikhu Parekh, David Goodhart, Roger Scruton, John Carey and others examine some.
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More on Shazia Khalid
‘They treat a woman like a cow,’ her husband says.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court Hears Challenge
To a law introducing a Taleban-style moral code in North-West Frontier Province.
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The Myth of Islam as Religion of Peace
Violence is as central to Islam as it is to Christianity.
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The Banality of the Bombers
What set Eichmann apart was his ability not to think seriously about what he was doing.
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Jacoby v Horowitz on Academic Bill of Rights
Horowitz still claiming Fish, Bérubé and Gitlin ‘vetted and approved’ ABR.
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Congo’s Child Victims of Superstition
Children accused of witchcraft live in the street, or worse.
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Witchcraft
‘As a witch of the neo-Pagan strand I object to my faith being persecuted on face-value.’
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Localized Terror: Rape With Impunity
Debasement that is the lot of women in much of the world.
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Tectonic Plates Shifting
Eve Garrard on changes in the moral landscape.
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Inequality Does Matter
Low status and subordination cause stress and pain.
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The ‘Spiritual’ Inspiration for Mass Murder
Cheerleaders and recruiters.