On the West Bank and Gaza gays face imprisonment and torture.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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New SAT Question Relies on False Dichotomies
Best strategy is to accept facile premise then try to sell it.
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Hay Highlights
Hitchens everywhere, Raymond Tallis, Simon Singh, Timothy Garton Ash.
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Hitchens Brothers Go At It
Peter talks bollocks about religion, Christopher doesn’t.
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Catholic Church Urges Magic on Students
Asks them to wear wristbands calling on dead pope John Paul II to help with exams.
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Yank Tourists Asking Stupid Questions in Abbey
Information sheets correct factual errors in DaVinci Code.
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LFIQ Invites Hitchens and Galloway to Debate
Hitchens has accepted Labour Friends of Iraq’s offer, Galloway is considering.
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Respect and Communalism
Jane Ashworth reports on the Bethnal Green and Bow election.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Has Conveyed Her Message
There are atrocities performed in the name of culture and religion.
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Where Are All Those Conservative Anthropologists?
If there aren’t enough conservative scholars, how can Horowitz’ plan work?
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Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry [audio]
A discussion of blasphemy at the Hay festival.
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David Lodge on John Carey
Can aesthetic judgments be grounded? No. Then what?
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Legislation or Judicial Ruling?
Left debates whether to go for majority opinion or constitutional protection.
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Quebec Rejects Sharia Court
Quebec legislature voted unanimously against allowing sharia to be used in the legal system.
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Review of Simon Blackburn on Truth
Equips reader to expose weaknesses in arguments of both Ratzinger and Rorty.
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UCLA Conference on Political Hinduism
To find out how Hindutva and Hindu militancy affect Hinduism in practice.
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Terry Eagleton Reviews Russell Jacoby
Jacoby wants utopian thought that ‘pines for the future but does not map it out.’
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Clive James Reads John Bayley, Takes Many Notes
Either this will be a 40,000-word review, or there will have to be a winnowing.
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Creationism: God’s Gift to the Ignorant
Deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit anti-scientific agenda bad habit of fundamentalist authors.
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Someone Has Finally Noticed
Hitchens is one of the best literary and cultural critics around.