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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Most Reform Candidates Blocked in Iran
Ruling clerics seek to consolidate their power in the June 17 vote.
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Dawkins’ ‘Creationism: God’s gift to the ignorant’
Attacks creationists’ lack of logic and ‘deceitful misquoting.’ [pdf]
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Spin Doctors as Shy as Water Voles
‘In The Thick Of It’ doesn’t describe today’s New Labour all that well.
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Bogus Outrage at Penguin: ‘It Just Won’t Do’
Pitching a tedious fit about putative shortage of black authors.
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Jonathan Rée on Paul Ricoeur
Aim was to teach us to feel full force of authentic intellectual discomfort.
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A Struggle, a Struggle, and a Struggle
The fight for women’s rights in Iraq.
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Salman Rushdie Agrees With B&W
That Dylan Evans and Michael Ruse get both atheism and religion wrong.
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Genetic Research More Important Than Man United?
James Watson blasts UK for ‘piss poor’ approach to stem cell research.
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Natasha Walter on Porn and Feminism
Maybe an aggressively reductive view of women does do some damage after all.
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Cool Hip Porn
Starring women who are ‘comfortable with their sexuality’ and can ‘express themselves’.
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Will Leftish Xians Overtake the Rightish Variety?
Will social justice become more of an issue than sex and abortion? No.
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Rahila Khan Actually Rev. Toby Forward
But that’s only the beginning.
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Groningen Headmaster Sent Home to Cool Off
Teachers cannot simply tell classes humans are descended from apes.
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Paul Ricoeur
Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin: ‘We lose today more than a philosopher.’
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Paul Ricoeur
‘The entire European humanist tradition is mourning one of its most talented spokesmen.’
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California Diocesan Documents Show Cover-up
Catholic church officials transferred accused priests, ignored parental complaints.
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Christian Groups Wonder About Free Speech
‘Freedom of expression should never be sufficient reason to attack the values of any section of the community.’
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Graham Larkin on Horowitz’ Research Breakthrough
It has to do with a Network.
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Irshad Manji Against Routinely Low Expectations
And assumption that challenging a group’s religious convictions equals undermining their dignity.