‘Amnesty has a middle-class, Western, complacent, white image’ says Irene Khan.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Kansas Bans All Theories From Classroom
Theories never certain, while Bible is, because Bible says so, so there, smarty.
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Mugabe Regime Attacks Its Own Citizens
Homes, market stalls, food, woodcarvings smashed, people left to freeze.
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Moves to Make Scientific Research Public
The number of open access journals is increasing by the week.
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Dementia of Contemporary Conservative Thinking
Hitler, Mill, Lenin, Dewey, Friedan, Darwin, Nader all in the mix.
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Ricoeur, Metaphors, Mailer, Nietzsche, Sinclair
And how entire rooms disappear under piles of books and papers.
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What Science, What Europe?
Mots d’ordre are made not to induce thinking and debating but to produce agreement.
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Muslim Women’s Group in Malaysia Has Clout
‘Sisters in Islam’ letters to newspapers have caused changes in laws.
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Gary Taylor on James Shapiro’s Shakespeare
‘Shapiro connects areas of scholarship usually kept separate.’
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The Uses of Divisive Partisanship
It is not a virtue to escape thorny questions and postpone larger ones.
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‘Witchcraft’ Abuse Case May be One of Many
Four London charities told BBC News this was not an isolated case.
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‘Exorcisms are part of our culture’
Members of communities which practice exorcism say it is not necessarily harmful.