And vice versa: to clarify what disadvantage is, and figure out how to fix it.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The Libet Experiment Revisited
Does that 1.5 second gap matter?
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Noam Chomsky Interview
‘He recognises little distinction between conspiracy and cock-up.’
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What to do With Evidence? Bury It
Report by Human Remains Working Group forces science to defer to mystical beliefs.
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A Much Too Long Biography of Jung
‘There is nothing quite like esoteric windiness for creating a penumbra of profundity’
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Colin McGinn on Bookworminess
Dorian Gray and horror novels as a child, illiteracy as an adolescent, then philosophy.
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Terry Eagleton the Insider-Outsider
Students have gone from uncritical, reverential essays on Flaubert to uncritical, reverential essays on ‘Friends.’
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B&W auf Deutsch
Tom DeGregori’s ‘Shiva the Destroyer’ in the German magazine Novo.
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Hey! Where’s my Nobel Prize?!
If the Nobel committee somehow overlooks you, make a stink, demand your prize! Or perhaps not.
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Tyranny is Tyranny
Even when the tyrants are not US puppets, so the left should not be silent.
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US Voters Want Even More Religion
Only 21% want less, so secularists are just out of luck.
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Atheism not in the Running
Democrats refuse to ‘cede spirituality to the Republicans,’ so secularism is not an option.
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Root Causes
There are always a lot of them – which do we choose to focus on and why?
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Hugh Kenner
The Guardian obituary.
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Rising Anti-Semitism in Europe
Is criticism of Israel merely a screen? Or is criticism of criticism of Israel the screen?
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Stanley Fish Makes an Excellent Point
‘The only respectable intellectual goal is the pursuit of truth’
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Hugh Kenner
The New York Times obituary.
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Can Aesthetic Standards be Grounded?
Or are they imposed by the powerful for political purposes.
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GM Propaganda War Not Helpful
If each side leaves out important facts, conclusions are obscured and the public is confused.
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Karachi
William Dalrymple on what Lévy got wrong in his book on the murder of Daniel Pearl.