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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Here We Go Again – Scopes Trial #7293
Biology textbooks, Georgia, evolution, petition, only a theory, ID, law suit.
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Panda’s Thumb on Georgia Case
Debate over Cobb school district decision taken to courtroom.
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Creationism in Wisconsin
School district mandates the teaching of more than one theory of origin.
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A Sunday Snicker with Stott
‘I was wearing classic Joseph tuxedo pants’ while nabbing table items from posh caffs. How eco!
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Hunt Protestors and Assassination Fears
Deepening resentment towards the government could result in people being killed.
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Aaronovitch on the Election
The spiritual politics-moral values thing has been exaggerated.
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Radcliffe Wins New York Marathon
One in the eye for those armchair marathoners who criticised.
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More on van Gogh, Hirsi Ali, the Netherlands
“I feel terribly guilty,” a shocked Hirsi Ali told Dutch media.
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Islam in Indonesia
‘On paper, Indonesia is a secular country, but it’s illegal not to have a religion there.’
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Garry Wills on Yearning for the Enlightenment
Can a people that believes more fervently in the Virgin Birth than in evolution still be called an Enlightened nation?
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A Mistake in Arendt Biography Gets Repeated
Edward Said repeated Young-Bruehl’s error in article, later reprinted, despite her correction.
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Being a Woman in Afghanistan
It takes some nerve.
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Jonathan Derbyshire Reviews Silly Atheism Book
Alister McGrath makes his case by mischaracterising atheism.
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British v French Enlightenment
McLemee on Himmelfarb’s ‘sociology of virtue.’
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A Critical View of van Gogh in Index on Censorship
Rohan Jayasekera says van Gogh’s work was abuse of his right to free speech.
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UNESCO Condemns Murder of Theo van Gogh
Though in an unfortunately apologetic way.
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More on van Gogh, ‘Submission,’ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
MP Ali has blamed Islamists for fostering repression and domestic violence; she and van Gogh were threatened.
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Challenging Islam is Risky
Says Irshad Manji, speaking from experience.
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Anti-gay Singer’s Tour Cancelled
The British tour by Jamaican star Sizzla has been called off after protests that his music would incite attacks on gay men.