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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Cogito Ergo Bite Me
At UC Berkeley, philosophy is the thug gangsta of all majors.
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Workers’ Liberty on Tariq Ramadan
40 reasons he is a strange ally for the left.
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Kelley-Hawkins Due to be Reforgotten
Not a conflicted black writer after all, just a dull white one. Oh.
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Strained Readings of Kelley-Hawkins
As critics have labored to account for the almost aggressive whiteness of her characters.
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What History Students Read
Textbooks, mostly; then they take a test. Not good.
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Carlin Romano: Saul Bellow Was the Best
The novelist of record when it came to America’s peculiar high-low rap.
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Florida Academic ‘Freedom’ Bill Struggling
Professors actually sometimes disagree with students, even about evolution. Horrors.
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Michael Walzer on the Danger of Military Metaphors
A ‘fighting faith’ is good for activists but not for armies.
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Terry Eagleton on Literary Competition
Reviews Bourdieu-influenced portrait of literature as lethal combat.
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Nostalgia and Primitivism
The most important features of civilization are soap and toilet paper.
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Simon Baron-Cohen: Autism and Sex Differences
‘Time to distinguish politics and science, and just look at the evidence.’
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Why Do Some Leftists Ally With Islamists?
Different people have different ‘shibboleths’…
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Hitchens on Bellow
What other American novelist has so influenced non-American writers?
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Saul Bellow
Had no wish to be part of the ‘Hart, Schaffner and Marx’ of American letters.
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An Appreciation of Saul Bellow
He closed the gap between Thomas Mann and Damon Runyon.
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New York Times Bellow Feature Page
Links to reviews, interviews, articles, excerpts, from 1943 to today.
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Saul Bellow
The Guardian obit.
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Saul Bellow
The Chicago Sun-Times obit.
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Ted Honderich
Force-fed religion in childhood, could see that nothing in religion could possibly be true.