Psychoanalysis subverts the essence of western rationality.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Al-Jazeerah: Schroeder Supports Ban for Teachers
German Chancellor opposes headscarf for teachers but not for students.
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Top Celebrity Speaks on GM, Nanotechnology
Prince of Wales ‘operates on prejudice, not evidence, but because of his position he is listened to.’
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Sludge, Clag and Gruel
Managerese has infiltrated the English of politics, bureaucracy, education, the arts.
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Grade Inflation at the Theatre
If every play gets a standing ovation, how do we know which ones stink?
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Blake Morrison on Frank Furedi
Therapy Culture omits too much, such as the fact that therapy can help.
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Yes But What Does ‘Spirituality’ Mean?
Vicar of Putney prefers passionate atheists, Madonna likes the Kabbalah.
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Thurmond Relatives are Displeased
At Strom? No, at his secret illegitimate daughter, for going public after 78 years. The nerve.
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Jefferson v. Napoleon
Scalia, other judges agree: Jefferson guilty of prolonging slavery, deporting American Indians.
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‘Transgressors’ Squawk When Teased
Behold ‘the insular narcissism of people whose chief virtue is not intellectual seriousness but a certain docility…in their relationship with institutions.’