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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Rawls, Habermas and Bobbio in an Age of War
In era of serial war, three theorists of a perpetual peace.
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Yet More on WomenandMathandNatureandCulture
Useful look at several studies.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Execution of Juveniles
Supreme Court ruled against capital punishment for crimes committed before age 18.
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Johnson and the Women
Despite dog on hind legs remark, Johnson had clever women for friends.
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Victory for Muffled Women
Shabina Begum wins right to wear concealing clothes.
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Hume and the Deep-fried Mars Bar
Slightly parochial review of new biography.
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Voltaire Feared Boredom, not Inconsistency
He was like Nancy Mitford, Michael Moore, Susan Sontag, Toad of Toad Hall.
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On Stephen Greenblatt
Is he an apostate of Theory?
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Paley’s New Clothes
Niall Shanks looks at both biological and cosmological arguments for Intelligent Design.
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Joseph Carroll’s Literary Darwinism
Debunking puffery of postmodernists and sly misrepresentations of Stephen Jay Gould.
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In the Internet Age We Are All at Harvard for Life
Public pressure is powerful, but not necessarily useful.
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What Were Einstein and Gödel Talking About?
‘There can never be surprises in logic,’ but Gödel’s incompleteness theorems were a surprise.
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‘Christian Voice’ Plans to Target Abortion Clinics
Because women should be indoors under authority of father then husband.
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Who is This ‘Christian Voice’ Gang?
Tiny group gets attention by being absurd.
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Camus and Sartre: Friendship and Influence
Sartre the philosopher who dabbled in literature, Camus the writer who dabbled in philosophy.
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Roy Hattersley Reviews Book on T H Green
‘The Labour party has always been short of philosophers’; Green is essential reading.
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Review of Isaac Deutscher’s Trotsky Biography
How to read it when mass secular leftist movements no longer propel dreams of social justice?
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Peter Benenson 1921-2005
His 1961 newspaper article ‘The Forgotten Prisoners’ changed the world for the better.
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Amnesty International on Peter Benenson
‘In 2005 his legacy is a world wide movement for human rights which will never die.’