OUP withdrew book, author apologized, but protesters attacked anyway.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Samantha Power Reviews Chomsky
A glib and caustic tone; exaggerated claims not backed up; but worth reading.
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‘Activists’ Attack Research Institute
Vandals attack Bhandarkar oriental research institute, staff, books and manuscripts.
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Daniel Mendelsohn on Donald Kagan
What does the Peloponnesian War mean in a world with only one superpower?
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Ha’aretz Meets Judith Butler
She’s a celebrity, she exudes charisma, followers line up for her talks. Hmm.
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Anthropocentric Conceit
The creator of the fifteen-billion-year-old, multibillion-star universe thinks we’re just swell. Right?
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Football Coach Millionaires
‘Many wonder how healthy it is to pay a football coach more than the president of a university.’
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Incautious Precautionary Principle
Philip Stott on morally bankrupt opposition to GM crops in developing world.
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The ‘Little People’
It’s fashionable to turn down a gong, but what does that say to unfashionable recipients?
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Reports From the MLA
Interviews, paranoia, clothes, panels no one attends – life at an academic convention.
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Why Did Bam’s Houses Fall Down?
‘Iran is still being ruled by a useless, incompetent semi-theocracy…’