Procedural ruling leaves constitutional issue unresolved.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Happy Bloomsday
Joyce once said Ulysses did not contain ‘one single serious line’ – and that’s why we like it.
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Stuart Hampshire
The Guardian obituary, by Jane O’Grady.
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Gendered Breathing?
Unintentionally comic examination of refreshing, provocative, frustrating Luce Irigaray.
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Three Charged With Inciting Religious Hatred
Human rights activists staged art exhibition that angered Russian Orthodox Church.
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‘Religious Hate’ Trial Smacks of Bad Old Days
Exhibition angered a mob ‘who unleashed a pogrom in the museum, vandalizing the artworks with paint sprayers.’
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Bush Asks for Vatican’s Help
Wants it to ‘push American bishops to speak out more about political issues.’
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The Discreet Cultishness of Leo Strauss
Code words, exoteric and esoteric meanings, irony, you had to be there.
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Stuart Hampshire
The Telegraph obituary.
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Snoop Dog is Talking to Foucault
The convergence of two developments: expansion of US penal system and the rise of rap.
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High Court Rules in Shabina Begum Case
School uniform not a violation of religious rights.
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Life, the Universe, and Everything
To assess life in this cosmos, it helps to understand it.
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No, Evolution is not a ‘Belief’
Worry over Vardy foundation schools that teach creationism.
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Inequality and US Democracy
A report by the American Political Science Association.
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Is This a Joke?
Congressional reps attended a ‘coronation’ for Sun Myung Moon in a federal office building?
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David Aaronovitch on Religious Schools
‘I’ve been asleep to this creeping indoctrination. I’m awake now.’
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Into the Realm of Magical Thinking and Delusion
News flash: Bush really does believe all that stuff.
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On Dennett and Determinism
Soul, Will and God are not purported things that exist, but values that are aimed at.
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Sharia Proposal to Undergo Review
Ontario Premier McGuinty is concerned about implications.
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Interview with Paul Bloom
One can expand the moral circle by taking other people’s perspectives.