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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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US Journalist Murdered in Basra
Particularly incensed about the sharp divide between men and women in the Islamic world.
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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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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 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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Witchcraft
‘As a witch of the neo-Pagan strand I object to my faith being persecuted on face-value.’