Jesus did not have a baby with that woman! He did walk on water and rise from the dead though.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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What Would Jesus Smell Like?
You can’t see him or touch him, but light a candle and you can smell him.
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Harvard Faculty Vote No Confidence in Summers
Cite management style and that terrible thing he said about women.
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Repeated Apologies Fail to Calm Harvard Tempers
He said women are stupid, he’s got to go.
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Faculty ‘Regrets’ Summers’ Tactless Remarks
Saying women can’t count is simply the final straw.
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‘The Whore Lived Like a German’
Six ‘honour’ killings of women in Berlin in four months.
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‘Honour’ Killings Shock Berlin
Ozcan Mutlu, Berlin city councillor, complained German authorities ignore the practice.
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Turkey Campaigns to Educate Women
When not beating them up in demonstrations, that is.
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Outrage at Murder of Hatun Surucu
‘This tragedy has shaken us awake,’ says Eren Unsal from Association of Secular Turks.
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It’s Not Easy to Invent Nationalism
What is it to be English? And is group identity a good thing anyway?
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Religious Right Using its Power to Push ID
First Amendment, respect for beliefs, persecution by liberal establishment.
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What Did Adam Smith Really Say?
The distortions of Smith’s views have conquered popular discourse.
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Tyranny of Majority Visits Supreme Court
The prevalence of a belief has nothing to do with its veracity.
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Appeal to Save the Life of Nozad Ismail
Sign the appeal.
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How the Monster Arrives
The more that’s done to jolt memories about the genocide, the better.
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Peter Singer on Euthanasia of Newborns
US infant mortality is 6.63 per 1,000 live births, in the Netherlands it’s 5.11.
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Christian Group Seeks Judicial Review of BBC
Christian Institute says JSTO broke Human Rights Act by discriminating against Christians.
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Lacan, Zizek, the Real, the Imaginary
The Symbolic, and a movie with psychoanalytic cartoons.
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A Skeptical Look at Social Constructivism
Social constructivism does not follow from fallibilism alone or even from anti-foundationalism.
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Take That, Hipster Doofus Professor!
Scott McLemee on edutainmant and its discontents.