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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Law School Dean Warns of Religious Influence
Faith challenges underpinnings of legal education.
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Carlin Romano on Lying Cheating Philosophers
Semi-official commitment to truth entails some integrity.
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Project Zero Encourages Students to Think
Good idea, let’s hope it has legs.
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Review of Simon Blackburn on Truth
Take postmodernist inverted commas off things that ought to matter to us: truth, reason, objectivity and confidence.
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Russell Jacoby on Higher Education
Best schools once promised alternative to selfish materialism but now proudly offer exactly that.
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Aren’t You Sorry You Missed Luce Irigaray?
Remaining only in sameness or impersonal neutrality leads either to paralysis or to uncontrollable acceleration.
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Murdered Nun Had Argued With Priest
Was locked up with no food or water for four days before crucifixion.
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Gödel was Irked by Wittgenstein
Rebecca Goldstein on Gödel and Einstein, super-realism and Platonism.
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Alan Wolfe on Jews, Assimilation, and Identity
Assimilation and influence, identity and isolation.
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Marx Out in Front
Wittgenstein second. Wheen applauds, Blackburn and Grayling have doubts.
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Michael Ruse Eyes the ‘Slippery Slope’
‘Darwinism’ a threat to belief in a caring omnipotent deity.
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Nicholas Kristof Phones Mukhtaran
She is free, but her passport is still confiscated.
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Words Matter, Differences Matter, Truth Matters
Pavel Litvinov notes: exaggeration for the sake of attention is a bad move.
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What’s All the Fuss About?
Romanian nun dies in ‘exorcism’; common practice, priest says.
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Eve Garrard Asks: Why is Israel Singled Out?
It’s no good saying ‘Because we think it’s worse’ – that’s a circular argument.
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Sally Satel on ‘The Ethical Brain’
Untangling how we arrive at moral and ethical judgments.
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Amartya Sen on the Argumentative Indian
Indians are not all ‘spiritual.’
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Sartre Wanted to Be Both Spinoza and Stendhal
Easy and tempting to mock Sartre as poseur and hypocrite.
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Martha Nussbaum on Henry Sidgwick
Insistence on ‘point of view of the Universe’ not as obtuse as had been thought.