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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Forget Substance, Just Give Me Style
Is being cool the president’s job?
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Groupthink?
Are pro-GM scientists bullying dissenters to get them to agree?
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Rough Edges at Harvard
More multicultural understanding, or more reading and math?
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Valid Points? Or Merely the Usual Suspects?
Did Habermas and Derrida ignore the Others, are they Eurocentric, what about Africa and Asia?
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Oh That Old Ploy
Astrology’s alibi: we’re ‘not a science but a symbolic, allusive language.’
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Foucault on Society
He wasn’t the first to point out the importance of the despised and excluded, but he did it well.
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C. Wright Mills
‘his name rarely appears on the reading lists of fashionable graduate courses in social and cultural theory’ and that’s reccomendation enough.
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‘Family-Friendly’ Policies and Gender Roles
Study shows the relationship between workplace flexibility and who does the housework to be complex.
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Helpful Hints from Michael Hann
The newspapapers as guides to what to say about Martin Amis.
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They’re Just Jealous!
Self-serving bilge.
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Publisher Drops Honderich Book
German publisher Suhrkamp reacts to charges of anti-Semitism.
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Trotsky’s Great Grand-daughter
‘If you want to be a scientist, you cannot allow politics to get in the way of your objectivity.’
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Science as Democratizer
Critical thinking is good for democracy, and science can unify people.
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Ted Honderich Page
With links to letters from Habermas and others relevant to publication controversy.
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Popularising Without Dumbing Down
Stephen Law abandoned ‘dippy’ ideas for reasoned ones.
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Ridiculous, But Not Aboriginal
Prince Harry, modernist artist, kind of.
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Islam and Human Rights
Ishtiaq Ahmed argues that a Muslim cultural identity need not be confused with harsh laws and practices from the medieval past.
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Even Dissidents Need Evidence
UK media are no longer watchdogs, they are powerful actors themselves.
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Do Artists Pay Critics’ Mortgages?
And if they do does that mean the critics have to give them good reviews?