What is France’s insistence on secularism about?
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Carl Zimmer on Misunderstanding Science
It’s about uncertainty, not certainty.
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The Guardian’s Rwanda Page
Links to many aspects of Rwanda and the genocide.
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Revisiting de Tocqueville
‘Religious insanity is very common in the United States. We should not be surprised at this.’
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A Mind as Speedy as an Eider Duck
B.R. Myers says Jeffrey Masson’s amateurish style is persuasive, sort of.
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Menand on McCarthy and Related Matters
The difference between journalists and academics; narrow elections and how little they mean.
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Rwanda
As the tenth anniversary approaches, Frontline takes a look.
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Michael Foot’s 1000 Volumes of Hazlitt
Will go to the Wordsworth Trust when he conks out. Not soon, let’s hope.
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Heaps of All-round Stupidity
John Quiggin has a harsh word or two for postmodernist nonsense about advertising.
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The Fun of Working for the Bush Administration
Leon Kass told Elizabeth Blackburn ethics panel would consider diverse views. But no.
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Terry Eagleton on Edward Said
‘He is more interested in emancipating the dispossessed than in bending genders or floating signifiers.’
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Ektopos Has its First Birthday
Excellent philosophy site reaches a milestone.
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Honour Killings Averted
Pair from enemy tribes in Pakistan marry under police protection.
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Astronomer on Importance of the Hubble
The telescope is needed for ultraviolet astronomy.
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How Do You Apologize for Mass Murder?
In Rwanda people have to live next door to the people who murdered all their relatives.
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Martin Seligman on Eudaimonia
It’s now possible to measure fuzzy states like sadness and schizophrenia.
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Theory is Too So Still Relevant!
It has to figure out who will be famous twenty years from now, obviously.
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Potential for False Abuse Claims
New child protection law could lead to problems being misinterpreted. Or not.
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Hitchens Reviews Buruma and Margalit
Paranoid, reactionary, death-loving ideas underlie Occidentalism as well as Orientalism.
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BBC on Laine Case
US scholar says case was brought for political reasons.