Ministers put the boot in, cheer each other on, regarding Prince’s memo.
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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Evangelicals Have Learned to Play Victim
When you make public arguments, you have to ground them in reason and evidence.
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85 Lashes for Breaking Ramadan Fast
14 year old boy whipped to death in Sanandadj, Iran.
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Denis Dutton Reviews Joseph Carroll
On literary Darwinism, the lust for stories, cognitive modules, pleasure.
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Where Are Those Pesky Relativists, Anyway?
Are criticisms of postmodernism just anti-intellectualism on the rampage?
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Blame Canada – No, Wait, Blame Kant
David Blunkett blames Kant for scepticism about compulsory national identity card.
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Intellectual Links Between India and China
Religion is not the only way to understand people, Amartya Sen notes.
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Was Derrida Like the Wizard or Like Toto?
To himself, he was far more like the dog.
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Vardy Academies and Creationism
‘As to the whole evolution proposition that we have evolved from slime, I just find it impossible to accept.’
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Religous Conservativism Not Just a US Thing
Aim is to protect ‘faith-based’ value system against encroaching secularism of west.
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Jane Kramer on French Hijab Law and Islamism
‘But in France, with all its freedoms, so many young women seem to be capitulating to Islamist pressure.’
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Guardian Readers on Livingstone and Qaradawi
Why does mayor meet Qaradawi but not liberal Muslims and victims of Islamist repression and dictatorship?
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Philosophy as Therapy via Thought-Clarification
Tim LeBon cites the Symposium and Stoicism.
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Many Xmas Humour Books Are Crap
But some aren’t. Independent fails to mention obvious exception.
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Best Literary Lives
Aubrey, Johnson, Gaskell, Malcolm. Add Boswell, Lewes, Holmes.
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Hitchens on the Pornography of Power
Kissinger told Guzzetti not to slow down the rate of kidnappings and murders but to speed it up.
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Race, Class, Culture, and Education
How factors combine and then reinforce each other.
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Iris Chang
Her book outraged Japanese conservatives. Because?
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Making No Sense in Defense of Nonsense
Lacking empirical fact and logic, creationism uses political approaches to winning arguments.
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James Trefil Reviews Richard Dawkins
Great stuff – intriguingly written, honest about controversies, clear about the science.