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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Who Owns Your Life?
‘New Prohibitionists’ cite brain chemistry to argue against all suicide.
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French Press Reacts to Headscarf Ban
Some papers welcome the move, others think it’s irrelevant.
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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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Strong Feelings on Both Sides
Some Muslim girls campaign against the hijab, some campaign for it.
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Dictator Kitsch
How does one reconcile a personality cult with ‘scientific’ Mao Zedong Thought?
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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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Fashion
Being a Unique Individual like everyone else.
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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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Paul Krugman on Inequality
Even that leftist rag Business Week has noticed.
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Imaginings of Escape
So many literary characters say: let me out of here.
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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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Signifyin’ at the MLA
Who won the Andrew Ross Award for Dangerous Hipness?
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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.’
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Meera Nanda in Frontline
Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism and ‘Vedic science’
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Danish Science Ministry Criticizes Committee
Says committee failed to provide evidence of bias or flawed methodology.