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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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Scientific American Repents
Late conversion to fair and balanced reporting. What a relief.
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Japanese History Textbooks Anger Neighbours
Nanjing massacre of 300,000 called ‘incident.’
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Einstein as Writer
Letters best source of his caustic humour, humanity, impatience, various passions.
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Einstein Was on a Roll
So he produced a real belter for his June offering: On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.
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On Happiness
Bentham, economics, envy, Freud, Klein, alientation, solidarity.
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Pope Ignored Reformists, Vatican Banned Condoms
John Paul replaced reformist cardinals and bishops with traditionalists.
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The Pope Has Blood on his Hands
The Vatican condemned condoms, which might have saved countless Catholics from an agonising Aids death.
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Outrage! Press Release on Pope
Attacks on human rights of women and gays immoral; condom ban cost millions of lives.
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Ms Magazine on the Pope
Could have done a great deal better.
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Review of Book on Unreason
Reviewer asks some dubious questions.
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Chandra v Eddington on the Fate of White Dwarf Stars
Chandra did the maths, Eddington said It Could Not Be.
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Russell Jacoby on Shock-Horror of Liberal Universities
Conservatives distrust unregulated intellectuals.
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Church Demands Monopoly on Superstition
Time to stop calling it faith; superstition is the right word.
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Nightwaves: Is Science Too Powerful?
Norman Levitt, Julian Baggini and A S Byatt discuss.
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Middle-Eastern Studies at Columbia
Report finds no evidence of anti-Semitism in department.
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Ad Hoc Grievance Committee Report
The report on allegations about faculty conduct at Columbia.
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Even a Catholic Theologian Can See
A ‘fraudulent church that has calcified and become senile behind its glittering façade.’