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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Iris Chang Commits Suicide
Author of The Rape of Nanking created awareness and controversy.
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The Fundamentalist El Niño
Evangelicals have taken advantage of religion’s immunity from criticism.
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Rohan Jayasekera Answers His Critics
Sort of.
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Livingstone Under Investigation over al-Qaradawi
Invitation to al-Qaradawi not popular with women, gays, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, some Muslims, non-bombers – most people.
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Blogger Threatened for ‘Insults’ to Allah
Allah not threatened for insults to blogger.
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Michael Fitzpatrick Reviews Richard Horton
Lancet editor’s new book on MMR panic doesn’t explain why he published Wakefield’s flawed research.
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Court Rules Vlaams Blok Party is Racist
Belgium’s highest court has ruled Flemish far-right Vlaams Blok is racist.
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Calls For End to Violence at van Gogh Funeral
Anger, hatred, sorrow, fear, remorse, all mix it up in aftermath of murder.
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Kristallnacht March in Oslo Forbids ‘Jewish Symbols’
Commemoration ended without a single representative from Norway’s Jews.
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Arundhati Roy Defends Views on Iraqi ‘Resistance’
‘Several critics said Roy’s views on Iraq should have disqualified her.’
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Arundhati Roy Speaks to Australia
‘Why should people allow a novelist to influence their political views?’
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‘Slaughterhouses’ Found in Fallujah
Iraqi troops have found houses where hostages were held and killed by the ‘resistance’.
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Oxford Wins Extension to Animal Rights Injunction
Order grants ‘no harassment’ zone around all its buildings in the city.
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Elaine Showalter on Tom Wolfe’s New Novel
Not a satiric view of the university but a leering exposé of undergraduate sexual behaviour.
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Does Affirmative Action Hurt Black Law Students?
Study suggests some counter-productive effects; critics respond.
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Leon de Winter on Theo van Gogh
In multicultural utopia, the Dutch believed radical Muslims and libertarians could co-exist peacefully.
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Access Without Quotas for Universities
The goal is equality of opportunity.
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The Nation Reviews Books on Islam
And has reservations about atheism.
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Dutch Muslim School Damaged in Explosion
Latest attack against Muslim institutions since murder of Theo van Gogh.