Minimal violence compared to communal conflagrations in the past.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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‘The Foetus is its Own Advocate’
‘It’s time people began to love the foetus.’ Is it?
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Study of Kennewick Man Begins
Anthropologists gather in Seattle to begin research.
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Scientists Finally Study Kennewick Man
After nine year delay.
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Hindu Nationalists Protest at Ayodhya Attack
Police are on high alert across India to prevent religious unrest.
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Background of Ayodhya Dispute
Destruction of Babri mosque in 1992 prompts riots: 2000 people die.
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Time to Admit: Religion is Dangerous
Sam Harris says what many people think but hesitate to say.
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Bush Admin Moves to Normalize Relations With Sudan
So the declaration of genocide is old news?
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David Rieff on Live 8 and Dangerous Pity
There is no necessary connection between raising money for a good cause and spending the money well.
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Philosophers Get the Inane List Treatment
‘Ideas play only a limited role in our social life.’ Gosh, really?!
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Too Many ‘Political’ Plays Run Gamut from A to B
The more specific the political purpose, the greater the temptations to dishonesty.
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Nick Cohen on a Mind-changing Book
Arguments from the almost forgotten tradition of the anti-totalitarian left.
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Guardian Readers Scoff at ‘Monster of Month’
‘for Zimbabweans he has been the monster of the month for years.’
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Statement on Rights and Freedoms Criticized
Gives too much legitimacy to David Horowitz and proposed academic bill of rights.
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Design Flaws
An engineer who designed such a system from scratch would be summarily fired.
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Science Needs Fantasy
Thought experiments and what if scenarios are part of the process.
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Amartya Sen Returns to Santiniketan Every Year
‘In this superb collection of essays, Sen smashes quite a few stereotypes.’
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Indians Have Always Asked Difficult Questions
A fundamental western mistake to see India as in an eternal mystical fog.
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Karl Miller Reviews Christopher Hitchens
Regards himself as a patriot, whose patriotism is universal rather than local.
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‘Equality is not Sexy’?
There’s more than one kind of female genital mutilation.