Indians are not all ‘spiritual.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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.
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Collection of Wobbly Arguments
Is that the best they can do?
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Public Relations Disaster for Pakistan
Perhaps the work of ‘more loyal than the king brigade’ around Musharraf.
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Evangelical Bullying at Air Force Academy
‘Focus on the Family’ across the street, New Life church up the hill.
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Theological Thickness
Christian theology has its own sources, insights, methods, and internal logic.
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Microsoft Criticized Over China Censorship
‘Human rights’ forbidden in subject line but allowed in text.
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Pakistan Lifts Travel Restrictions on Rape Victim
US State Department and human rights groups objected.
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Pakistan Lifts Travel Ban on Mukhtar Mai
Mai welcomed decision, had been planning to travel to US at invitation of human rights group.
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But Mai Needs Her Passport
Mukhtar Mai has told the BBC her passport has been confiscated.
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Today Reporter Tells How He Got the Story
Why Sita Kisanga agreed to talk to BBC about the ‘witchcraft’ child abuse case.
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‘Bad Astronomy’ on Creationist Astronomy
The Discovery Institute looks beyond biology…
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Woman Ordered to Marry Rapist
Indian woman ordered by Muslim council of community elders to marry father-in-law.
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India Muslim Divorce Code Disappoints Women
Code silent on minimum marriage age for women, triple talaq still there.
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Vatican Wins in Referendum Boycott
Failure of attempt to liberalise law on IVF treatment called ‘the great revenge.’
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Hitchens Argues on Late Night Live
Stellar Australian radio programme pits Hitch against Robert Manne.
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Jerry Springer’s Guests Get All Existential
Can Todd and Ursula reconcile post-Enlightenment meta-narrative with – stay tuned.
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George Szirtes on Andrey Platonov
The only utopianism worth anything is that of the suffering, the kindly, the saintly.
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Mukhtaran Bibi Kidnapped and Silenced
Gang-rape victim arrested to prevent trip to US.