Jews, pro-Indians, lesbians…’we have been tolerant too long.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Inclusion and Wishful Thinking
Liberals and conservatives put aside their differences to come up with a terrible idea.
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Postmodernism and ‘Vedic Science’
Meera Nanda on the repackaging of Hindu obscurantism as ‘science’.
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A Book With Everything, Even Classy Prose
Alas poor Joe McCarthy, martyr to the com-symp liberals and Ed Murrow.
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Ersatz Magic versus the Real Thing
A.S. Byatt ponders why adults are so smitten with Harry Potter.
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Rashomon is Fiction, the Friedmans are Real
Postmodern ambiguity as marketing ploy, and how gullible reviewers help.
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Larkin Wasn’t Cuddly
Misogynist, racist, hated children, pessimistic, and deeply drunk. So?
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Private School or State School?
Adam Swift and Anthony Seldon debate issues of fairness and positional goods.
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Private School After All
State school is better socially, but what of children who want to do sums now?
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Argument Over Academic Boycott of Israel
Oxford professor rejects Israeli student, and is now being investigated.
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The Weather
The stuff of small talk and of survival, and all is not well.
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Orwell Bash
Contradictions, inconsistencies, and life-risking commitment to the truth.
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The Bush Administration Versus Scientists
To Karl Rove, a Democrat is ‘someone with a doctorate’…and that’s not a compliment.
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Fiedler’s Legacy
“Do you still believe that st-st-stuff about Huck Finn?” asked Hemingway.
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Hobsbawm as de Tocqueville
Not egalitarianism but individualist, antinomian-but-legalistic anarchism is the core value system in the US.
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Affirmative Action Debate Continues
The Chronicle of Higher Education surveys the Supreme Court decision in the Michigan case.
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Houdon and the Enlightenment
Diderot, Rousseau, Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, captured as no one else knew how.
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Read All Year
Children who read more are better at reading, researcher says.
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Himself in Letters
Flaubert’s letters tell more of him than a biography can. Julian Barnes on the late Flaubert scholar Jean Bruneau.
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Winner-Take-All System in US Universities
A star system for a few while the drones barely make a living. Is this education or show biz?