Nor did the Taliban, nor did Franco or Hitler. Blanket pacifism doesn’t always answer.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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What Are Universities For, Again?
Oh that’s right – making money!
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Socialisation is Not the Job of Teachers
Schools have other things to teach.
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Richard Wollheim
The New York Times obituary.
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Süddeutsche Zeitung on the Third Culture
The sciences and humanities ought to work together.
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Strings in 11 Dimensions
‘Perhaps…the theory’s very unproveability means it should actually be seen as philosophy.’
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How Much Homework is Too Much?
US children aren’t doing more, their parents only think they are.
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Right Here, That’s Where!
Where is the Left when you need them to criticise Postmodernism? All around, actually.
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Dalrymple on Furedi
Agrees on the whole, though he points out that therapy can be useful.
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Is Chinese Medicine Scientific or ‘Alternative’?
And if it is scientific, does it belong to China, or can anyone anywhere test it?
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Yes But Ask Me to Name All Six ‘Friends’!
Most Americans can’t name even one Cabinet department.
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Interview with a Physicist
How strings do the job, and ‘Great science belongs to everybody.’
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Bogus Egalitarianism in Action
The ludicrously rich eat hot dogs, therefore inequality is just fine.
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Hobsbawm on History for a Broad Public
It can be good and readable without talking down to the readers.
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Boys in School
Noise and bravado unhelpful, so have them study in professional football clubs. Eh?
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David Aaronovitch on the Two Erics
Orwell knew and Hobsbawm knows how to face facts.
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Just a Question
But why isn’t it called ‘Husband Swap’?
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Honour Killing Foiled
Man tries to hire hitman to kill his son-in-law.
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The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism
Being playful and ironic and in fashion has its limitations.
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Human Remains Working Group Set to Report
Australian Aborigines welcome plan to set up bones repatriation panel.