And his campaign against the Norwegian reporter who revealed how women are treated in Afghanistan.
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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Treated Like Dirt Even by Small Boys
Even middle-class men treat women appallingly in Afghanistan.
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Peace Peace
The Baghdad blogger Salam Pax.
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The Right Imperfections
Authentic is sometimes a euphemism for labour-intensive or expensive.
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Interview with Donald Davidson
Long, searching discussion of both his life and his work.
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Bit of a Mistake, Really
If the US and UK hadn’t removed Mossadegh in 1953, things might have gone better…
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Horowitz Answers, Walker Answers Him
What would the consequences of the Academic Bill of Rights really be?
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You Can’t Read This
Publishers of specialist scientific journals are shutting out the public.
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Eagleton After Theory
‘Postmodernists oppose universality, and well they might: nothing is more parochial than the kind of human being they admire.’
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Unilateralism Meets Complacency
Le Monde editor suggests middle ground.
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Video-Game Archaeology
Stuffing artefacts in sacks, bayonetting, and other tricks of the trade.
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Another Susan Greenfield Interview
Tolerance is good, but so is self-improvement.
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Reason v. Academic Bill of Rights
‘Suddenly, “academic freedom” starts to sound like an encroachment on the freedoms of the faculty.’
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Is Some Black Music Homophobic?
Do the MOBOs celebrate artists with an anti-gay agenda?
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Roger Scruton on Donald Davidson
And ‘the sound made by a research programme when it hits’ – Cambridge.
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Donald Davidson
The Telegraph obituary.
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Richard Sennett on Patriotism
Dissonance cannot be resolved by a cathartic destructive act.
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Outmoded Authoritative Structures?
Did the makers of ‘The Matrix’ get Baudrillard wrong? Or were they making a subtle point about – oh never mind.
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Perhaps There Are More Than Two Sides?
How does one achieve ‘balance’ in a complicated subject that doesn’t always divide neatly along a left-right axis?
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A Slightly Guilty Formalist
Denis Donoghue speaks of beauty in his latest book.