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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Victimhood Envy
Anne Applebaum considers new books that claim the Germans were also victims in WW II.
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One Tributary of Darwinism
The geologist James Hutton wrote of adaptation and survival late in the 18th century.
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Neil Postman Remembered
‘He was expert in nothing. Therefore nothing was off limits.’
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How Natural Are These Disasters?
David Stanway looks at environmental degradation in China.
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
‘…even ruthlessly secularized activities can have a religious feel to them.’
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Woolly Jumpers and Even Woollier Language
The aim was to ‘reduce a text to a kind of fine powder of politico-sexual assumptions.’
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Pets I Mean Companion Animals
Do we spend too much money on them? Should we like them less and people more?
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The Politics of Sensitivity Training
Defining political protest as hate crime, if the protest is against the Vatican.
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Science Within Reason
Review of Susan Haack’s new book.
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Oh Dear, the National Review?
Yes, but the piece on the diversity essay is hilarious.
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Why No Lampshades on Their Heads?
Why do US conservatives keep pretending they’re a persecuted minority?
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Lists Are Always Fun
The Observer offers its list of the best 100 novels.
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Whither Canonicity?
Nobody ever said canon formation was easy. Robert McCrum on The List.
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Catholic Church Lies About Condoms
Anger at claim that condoms don’t offer protection against HIV.
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What Happened to Secularism?
Paul Kurtz considers the reasons for the retreat from science and reason in the US.
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BHL the Anti-anti-American
Bernard-Henri Levy looks at the concurrent rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism.
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How It’s Done
Add or omit quotation marks, call it ‘superweed’ or ‘wild hybrid’ – it all adds up.
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Celebrity Equals Entitlement
David Aaronovitch on what footballers and other athletes think of women.
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Public Intellectuals
A Tory squire and a Palestinian exile, but both thought academics should reach a broad public.