And refuses international food aid, citing desire not to be choked.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Atheist Roots of Hindu Philosophy
Disagreement among schools is over the authority of the Vedas, not a deity.
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Round up the Albanian Suspects
Macedonian government staged a shootout with pretend ‘terrorists’.
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Kuldip Nayar on Indian Secularism
‘The fight between secularism and chauvinism is nothing new.’
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Is Islam Gay-friendly?
Not quite as friendly as the Vatican.
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Hari on Galloway on Saddam
Describing mass murder as civil war.
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David Aaronovitch on ‘Honour’ Killlings
And facile moral equivalency.
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What Has Theology to do With Homosexuality?
Nothing, but theologians weigh in all the same.
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What Has a Bad Survey to do With Paleontology?
Nothing, but paleontology sounds impressive, so stick on the label.
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Ideas via Import-Export, not Creation
People with cohesive social networks tend to think and act the same.
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The Hot Air Never Stops
Carlin Romano reviews a stiflingly ethnocentric take on Pushkin.
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The Nation on The New York Review of Books
Radicals and liberals, politics and literature, dangerous and safe, trends and ends.
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Christie’s Should Have Been Less Certain
Questions about evidence and doubt arise even at art auction houses.
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Probability not Worth Two Million Pounds.
Epistemology at the auction house.
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GM Food Could Help Poor If
If biotetech focused on staple crops rather than cash crops.
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Can We Do Anything Without a Cause?
Tom Clark considers David Brooks a moral levitationist.
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A New Way to Annoy
Turner Prize abandons rubbish for the sake of dull virtue.
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The Use of Intellectual Obsessives
Teachers should forget being nice, and be opinionated instead.
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Elliott Abrams Meets With Apostolic Congress
Rapture Christians have that precious commodity: access.
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Susan Greenfield on Collaboration
Via wealth creation and common ground rules, science can promote peace.