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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Forget Teaching, It’s Only Crowd Control
It’s a wonder there are any teachers left…
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E O Wilson on the Launch of ‘Sustainability’
Why Internet magazines can be useful.
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Terry Eagleton on Literary Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein is the philosopher of novelists and movie directors. Hmmm…
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Egg-Implantation-Prevention is Murder!
Even though fertilized eggs naturally fail to implant 40 to 60 percent of the time.
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Habermas on Discursive Communication
Victor Navasky: journalism is supposed to be opinionated, that’s its job.
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Girl and Parents Threaten Self-immolation
Human rights organisations criticise increase in crimes against women in Pakistan.
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Toddler Enslaved to Punish Her Uncle in Pakistan
Village courts are illegal but powerful; common for verdicts to target innocent, particularly women.
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Women Protest Talibanization of Pakistan
‘These mullahs want us to just stay home, have children and God knows what else.’
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Liberalism Doesn’t Need Communitarian Correction
It needs conviction, which underpins passion.
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University Admissions and Athletes
Demand for athletes plays a larger role in admissions than most people realize.
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Horowitz’s War on Rational Discourse
Graham Larkin takes on an instrumentalist version of ‘truth.’
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Law on How to Teach Colonialism
French historians think it not up to state to say how history should be taught.
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Columbia University as Labour-gouger
Universities ‘liberal’? Not if you look at their labour policies.
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Victims of Jihad
Report from the Commission on Human Rights.
External Resources
- Conference Report
NGO report on the conference - Victims of Jihad
Report from the Commission on Human Rights.
- Conference Report
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Tom Frank on Bizarro US Populism
Where tax cuts on stock dividends are a blow against elites.
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Another Pogrom in the Making
Muslim majority threatens minority sect in Bogra, Bangladesh.
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Girls Abducted Into Armed Groups
To do domestic and military work, and nearly always as sexual slaves too.
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Sharia TV
Whatever you’re doing, stop.
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Repeal of Blasphemy Laws Urged
Ashiq Nabi the latest killed because of the blasphemy laws.