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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Mariano Aguirre on Contradictions of Ignatieff
Can ‘reasonable people’ disagree about what constitutes torture?
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Describing Jihadist Terrorism as Reactive is Wrong
Islamism is a real ideology; it is fatuous and counterproductive to claim otherwise.
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Sex, Violence and Philosophy [audio]
Three would-be hipsters discuss.
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Scott McLemee on Microcosmographia Academica
After almost a century, it remains as sharp as ever: parts might have been written last week.
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How Real Estate Went Pro, Then Academic
Sellers see what they are doing as a kind of applied social science.
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Unite Against Terror
We stand in solidarity with all these strangers, hand holding hand, from London to Netanya to Baghdad: communities united against terror.
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Why Blame the Terrorists?
Why not blame the Enlightenment instead?
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Appeasement Won’t Change Minds
How much is the world prepared to tolerate before intervening against murderous regimes?
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Shocking Outcome in Afghanistan
Woman dares to run for office.
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Ian Buruma on Bad Arguments for Blame Bushblair
Suicide bombers recognise no state outside imaginary community of pure faith.
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Blair Speech: What the Battle is About
Not just terrorist methods but their views. Not just barbaric acts, but barbaric ideas.
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Simone de Beauvoir the Bono of Post-WW II Paris
She and Sartre-Geldof acted as triggers of public and political conscience.
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Not Islamophobia but Paranoia
David Goodhart on the rhetoric of grievance.
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Sassy? Rocking the Boat? Is This a Game?
London was punished because ‘the pond that divides Britain and America is a shallow one.’
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Prayer ‘No Aid to Heart Patients’
There’s a surprise…
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The Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity
Kierkegaard and the place of emotion in philosophy.
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Hitchens on Srebrenica
What must it be like to die like that, gutted like a sheep in full view of the ‘international community’?
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Kenan Malik: Different Drugs for Different Races?
NEJM says race is biologically meaningless, some doctors disagree.
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Whither Multiculturalism?
It’s meant to bring people together, but critics say it drives them apart.