The law will serve to create martyrs – laws which criminalise free speech always do.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Lost Classical Library Buried Under Ercolano?
Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Aristotle…? Start digging!
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Conservative Christians and Muslims Unite
To ‘defend the family’ by fighting progressive social policies.
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‘Rolling Stone’ Rejects Proselytizing Ad for Bible
Not in the business of publishing advertising for religious messages, manager says.
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Humanists Worry About Religious Hatred Law
Law still protects religion but not belief; blasphemy law remains.
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Talibanization of Bangladesh?
Possible to observe the increased political and religious repression in everyday life.
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Anti-theism the Key to Understanding Hitchens
His ‘defection’ from the left is rooted in his hatred of religious fascism.
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Peer Review – Necessary but not Sufficient
Peer review takes time, and meanwhile, strange things can happen.
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String Theory
Is everything in the universe made of tiny vibrating strands of energy?
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On Rousseau and the Singular Self
The solitary walker, Benjamin, the afterlife.
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Carl Zimmer on Stem Cells and Neanderthals
How do fans of Intellgent Design or Young Earth creationism make sense of these scientific results?
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Zarqawi Declares War on Iraqi Election
‘We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.’
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Auschwitz Memorial Not Inclusive Enough?
Iqbal Sacranie says Muslim Council of Britain will not attend event unless it includes Palestinian intifada.
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Kenan Malik on the Islamophobia Myth
The idea confuses hatred of Muslims with criticism of Islam.
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Singer Takes Bush Administration to Task
For allowing ideology to trump empiricism and sound reasoning.
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Todd Gitlin on Bad versus Good Reporting
Rumors of death of aspirations for truth in favor of mere “perspective” are greatly exaggerated.
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Not Simone de Beauvoir, More Like George Sand
Lucasta Miller on radically free, independent, autonomous Susan Sontag.
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Christians Worried about SpongeBob
Critics need medication, one observer suggests.
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Graham Larkin Replies to David Horowitz
Is the Academic Bill of Rights about ‘balance’ or not?
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Harvard President on Women in Science and Maths
Are there innate cognitive differences, is there evidence, is it ‘offensive’ to discuss?