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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Richard Popkin Obituary
Historian of philosophy and skepticism.
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Ratzinger Speaks
Homosexuality: ‘intrinsic moral evil.’
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Panzerkardinal Beats the Odds
Cardinal No born to parents named Joseph and Mary.
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Atheists Should be Pleased About New Pope
He’ll do wonders for creeping secularism. Hallelujah.
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The One Thing Pope Stands for is Hierarchy
Could be the long withdrawing roar of a sclerotic Kremlin-like empire.
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Julian Baggini on the Ratzinger Opportunity
To confront and slay the myth that without God anything is permitted.
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Another Dogmatic Critic of Secularism
And another conflation of Christianity with morality.
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Lost Works of Hesiod, Euripides, Sophocles
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are being decoded, and treasures being found.
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Black Studies Departments Having Identity Crisis
Some worry, others think they were a bogus idea to begin with.
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Try to Read This Without Snickering
The discursive limits of the Foucauldian concept of power as the sovereign exception over biopolitical life…
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Oh Hooray, it’s the Scary One
Ratzinger is new pope.
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Timely Homily Clinches Job for Ratzinger
Denunciation of all deviations from traditional church teachings as trickery and error was a winner.
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The Deity’s Rottweiler
Has a reputation for stifling dissent; early campaign was against ‘liberation theology’ in Latin America.
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Nick Cohen on Galloway and Respect
Trots in burkas would be hilarious if they weren’t symptomatic of a shambolic left.
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The Funding of Global Warming Skeptics
Exxon funds think tanks and lobbying, Chris Mooney points out.
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Salman Rushdie on The PEN and the Sword
The effort to defend writers under attack by powerful interests who fear and threaten them.
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Ariel Dorfman Remembers Jean-Paul Sartre
He had taught that the truth tends to be a profanation of our expectations.
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Interview With E O Wilson
Contrary to postmodernism – each person a little universe – we really can unify knowledge.
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Katha Pollitt on Andrea Dworkin
She put some important hidden bits of reality out there on the table.