Universities and teachers argue over new national pay framework.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Anti-GM Hysteria Begins
Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, all the usual suspects, foam at the mouth.
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Stanley Milgram Admired ‘Candid Camera’
Allen Funt believed he could reveal how people respond to societal pressures.
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Back From Syracuse, Dr. Heidegger?
What is it with intellectuals and dictators? Mark Lilla has a look.
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Norm Geras Encounters Some Nonsense
And wonders if there’s a way to decide whether it’s right or wrong.
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67% Chance That God Exists
‘Scientist’ starts from absurd premise and arrives at ridiculous conclusion.
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Like Gibbon and Frazer Only in Bulk
William Vollmann’s seven volume work is swept away on a flood of logorrhea.
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Hemingway at his Most Eloquent
Bulls are great – they don’t write, they’re not queer, they’re not old women, and you can kill them.
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That’s an Accomplishment?
‘one of literary theory’s accomplishments…has been its bid to protect “the privacy of its language.”‘
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Ah, Sweet Mystery
Popular science books ought to help nonspecialists distinguish sense from nonsense.