The Right is also capable (to say the least) of judging truth claims via ideology instead of vice versa.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Michael Ruse on Matt Ridley
‘…the nature-versus-nurture, biology-versus-culture, genes-versus-environment dichotomy has broken down.’
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When in Doubt, Show Tits
French feminists attack Green campaign that features a female breast for no apparent reason.
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Medieval History is Not Merely Ornamental
Not that anyone really said it was, but the story got attention, so that helps.
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The Hip-hop Archives
Henry Louis Gates decides not to skip Harvard, rebuilds African-American Studies department.
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The Absentation of Actuality
Is there a law that requires postmodernists to write badly?
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Where Cheap Servants Come From
Underpaid, easily-fired Third World women do the domestic work no one else wants to.
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Cynthia Ozick on Azar Nafisi
Theocratic tyranny, a bus full of writers on the edge of a cliff, vigilantes and fanatics take over the revolution.
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Exclude Men but not Women?
Is it a good idea to exclude men from sport to achieve gender equality, but not exclude women from university to achieve the same thing?
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Line Between Religious Belief and Delusion
The second deficit means being unable to discard the impossible experience.
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The Whig View of Religious History
From millions of gods to one – this is progress?
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Do Tests Violate Children’s Rights?
Emphasis on tests in UK ignores the needs of children, says UN envoy.
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Post-post-post-postmodernism
Shock-horror: Toby Litt says he’s not a postmodernist after all.
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Fashionable Where, Exactly?
One prince’s attack on fashionable views is another historian’s conservative agenda.
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Government advisers and biotech links
Do biotech industry links undermine the independence of scientific advice?
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The End of Section 28
Thatcherite law that outlawed ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools has been abolished.
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GM Explained
Useful Guardian background article on the debate over genetically modified crops.
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War With the Fuzzy-Wuzzies
Imperialism is bad, yes, but we still like all the violence. So, do a revisionist version.
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Epistemology is not the Only Subject
Anglophone analytic philosophers got it wrong by disregarding the history of philosophy.
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Abused Child Makes Good
Despite sexual abuse, imprisonment and religious persecution, Elizabeth I was no slouch as a queen.