She feels more edgy and disconcerting than many contemporary children’s writers.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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UN Investigates Sugar Industry
Did sugar industry fund human dietary requirements study?
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Nonsense
History is not just a ‘story’ and neither is journalism.
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Hostage Ken Bigley Has Been Murdered
Three weeks of nightmare end in more nightmare.
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The War on Science, Bush Division
Author of As Jesus Cared for Women appointed to reproductive health drugs advisory committee of FDA.
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The Restorative Power of Jesus Christ
And the refusal of contraceptives to unmarried women. Great appointment.
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Archaeologists Support NAGPRA Amendement
Bad news.
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Physical Anthropologists on NAGPRA
Culturally unidentifiable remains are an issue.
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More on the NAGPRA Amendment
The law could get even worse, and it’s already bad.
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Friends of America’s Past on NAGPRA Amendment
Two little words – ‘or was’.
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A New Introduction to Philosophy
Jonathan Derbyshire reviews Philosophy: The illustrated guide.
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Education is not for Massaging Self-esteem
And art is not for improving community relations.
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Cass Sunstein on the Second Bill of Rights
Are social and economic rights foreign to a laissez-faire culture?
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A.C. Grayling at the Edinburgh Festival
We should try to be ‘intelligent responders’, reflecting on what we see, read, hear.
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A Conversation with Seyla Benhabib
On the emergence of human rights as a cosmopolitan norm, and much more.
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Passion and Rationality
Three books on philosophy and the emotions.
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Are Diversity and Solidarity Compatible?
Ethnic difference is not the only kind there is.
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Susan Jacoby on Secularism Under Threat
The messianic radicalism of the assault on separation of church and state.
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Versatile Jon Stewart
Combines political satire and a critique of post-Hegelian philosophy?
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Comparative Studies v Econometrics
Econometric studies are not useful when relying on limited data – as with capital punishment.