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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Desmond Tutu v. Mbeki and Mugabe
‘Human rights are human rights and they are of universal validity or they are nothing.’
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Oliver Taplin Reviews Mary Lefkowitz
How important are the classical Greek gods to understanding Homer and Euripides?
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Desire, Excess, Lust
Is there any problem with living in a sexualized culture?
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Whither Theory?
And how did theory become synonymous with literary and cultural theory?
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Let’s Have a Circumcision Party!
Malyasia has a new plan for bringing Muslims and non-Muslims together.
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Lomborg Decision Overturned
Danish Ministry has repudiated findings by Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty.
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That Pesky Enlightenment Rationalism
Why wasn’t Jefferson as environmentally sensitive as we are?
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Kenan Malik on ‘Hear the Silence’
Conspiracy theories used to be a right-wing item, but now the left likes them too.
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Drama Increases Worry Over Jab
Difficult for audience to know what’s true and what isn’t.
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Snakes Croaking under the Irish Coconut Trees
Mix the Osbournes, the Simpsons, Don DeLillo and Eminem: an anthology of media cliches.
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Skepticism is All Very Well But
But taken too far, it can lead to perverse outcomes.
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Science and Corruption
There are flaws in LA Times article about industry funding of researchers at NIH.
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Ding Dong the Witch is – Captured
Iraqi tyrant found in hole in ground.
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Reactions
The nightmare fear of a return of Saddam Hussein is over.
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From Evasion to Denial
Has the Left abandoned the Enlightenment ideal of universal freedom?
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Her Views as a Mother
Doctors criticize Juliet Stevenson for comments on MMR jab; Channel 5 says she has every right to speak.
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Bendy Yellow Fruits for Sale
Eats, Shoots & Leaves offers overheated whimsy and forensic quibbling.
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The Brains Are Under Construction
Brain research casts doubt on lowering voting age to 16.
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Headscarves and Secularism Clash
French commission of inquiry recommends banning very visible religious clothing, including crosses and headscarves.