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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Happy Darwin Day
Science is our most reliable knowledge system, acquired through human curiosity and ingenuity.
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Science Teachers Refuse to Read ID Statement
The struggle between ‘Godly America’ and ‘Worldly America’ continues.
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US Government Scientists Told to Alter Findings
Commercial interests applied political pressure to reverse conclusions thought harmful to business.
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Norman Geras on the Reductions of the Left
When imperialism is the only thing and everything else is epiphenomenal.
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Marxist Storm Eats Toast With Neocons
Sunday Times meets Norm Geras.
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Arthur Miller
Writing plays was for him like breathing.
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Death of a Playwright
Michael Billington: ‘He had to create a tradition rather than inheriting one.’
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More Republican Fans Than He Wants
Hitchens was getting bored with politics and politicians.
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Michael Ruse’s Eulogy for Ernst Mayr
Long, detailed, indispensable.
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No, US Was not Founded on ‘Christian Principles’
The founders were deists and atheists, not godbotherers.
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US Opposes Criminal Court Action on Darfur
Bush administration doesn’t want to ‘legitimize’ the International Criminal Court.
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Samantha Power on Bush Admin and ICC
Admin has denounced genocide in Darfur, good, but blocked ICC, bad.
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Taboo Mentality at Odds With Free Inquiry
How much we want to believe a proposition is not a reliable guide as to whether it is true.
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The Star-nosed Mole and ‘Intelligent Design’
Evolutionary biologists have offered hypotheses for how complex things evolve in nature.
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Salman Rushdie on the Danger of Taboo-thought
The moment you say any idea system is sacred, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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Noah Feldman Reviews Books on Political Islam
Concern about unintended consequences of civilizational encounters.
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Statement of Prof. Yakin Ertürk After Visit to Iran
Discriminatory laws perpetuate violence against women.
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A Genocide That Wasn’t?
Thomas Brown says Ward Churchill invented a story of intentional smallpox infection.
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Brown v Churchill
Is the issue free speech or academic standards?