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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Are Racist Teachers the Problem?
Or are there other reasons for minority school achievment gap?
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Review of Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century
Not about womanizing of Russell and Ayer or Ryle’s influence on The Police.
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Beyond the Multicultural Ghetto
The cure for bad history is not more bad history.
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14th Annual Ig Nobel Awards
It’s not exactly a joke, it’s found satire.
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Get it Right or Shut Up
Jamie Whyte on beliefs as part of your wardrobe.
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Moral and Political Dilemmas
Cheap food, liberty v security, problem neighbours, asylum, justice v forgiveness…
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Anything Wrong With the Academic Bill of Rights?
How could there possibly be a problem with legislators micromanaging universities?
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Total Entertainment All the Time
You mean consumption and entertainment is not what education is about?
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Stephen Greenblatt’s Shakespeare Biography
Writing for a general audience need not mean prostituting yourself.
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Colloquy on Shakespeare Biography
Join in and drown out the tedious Oxfordians.
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Pinochet Questioned
Judge Juan Guzman questioned Pinochet Saturday about disappearances during his dictatorship.
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Pinochet Denies Links to Operation Condor
Told Juan Guzman he thought operation was handled by middle-ranking officers.
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Two Nightmares Over, Others Continue
Italian newspapers on return of hostages.
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Arundhati Roy on Feminist, Non-violent War
Struggling with superstardom and the Chomsky effect.
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Livingstone Criticised for Links to Qaradawi
Coalition of Sikhs, Hindus, Jews, gays and National Union of Students takes mayor to task.
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Islamists Don’t Preach About the Dispossessed
Ishtiaq Ahmed on the need for improvements in this world.
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Long on Description, Short on Analysis
Introverts can be clever and extroverts can be silly, Colin McGinn points out.
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Bolshevik Disdain Beats Reflectiveness
Surrender, submission, fear, pride – they’re not new in human history.
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The Emperor’s New Shroud
Death as spa treatment, sex with the dead, the wisdom of the dead…