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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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 Places Where Science Needs Interpretation
Philosophers need to know the relevant scientific facts, and scientists need to know the history of philosophy, Simon Blackburn points out.
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Which Freedom?
Anatol Lieven looks at the opacity of a concept many Americans take to be transparent.
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Nuremberg Documents Online
Harvard makes its collection of documents from the Nuremberg trials available.
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Is Martin Amis Becoming an Old Bullshitter?
‘Yellow Dog isn’t bad as in not very good or slightly disappointing. It’s not-knowing-where-to-look bad.’
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The Tension Between Egalitarianism and Learning
Roger Scruton tells some painful truths about the costs of egalitarianism.
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Changes to Maths A Levels
Fewer options in applied maths, but still not an easy course, chief executive says.
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How’s That Again?
A professor of Moral Theology at Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross ‘clarifies’ the Vatican’s statement against homosexual unions.
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Denis Dutton Reviews Darwinian Politics
Paul Rubin looks at the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness.
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Scholar Demands Special Treatment for Catholicism
Disagreeing with the Catholic church is ‘prejudice’and ‘venom’. Because…?