Student editors and Harvard English department not heroes but confused, says Stanley Fish.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Alan Wolfe on ‘Diversity’
What Americans think diversity is and what they think it isn’t.
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The Tasaday
Feuds within anthroplogy, questions about authenticity, palm leaves versus T shirts.
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‘Watchdog’ versus Teachers’ Union
Is it discrimination to exclude disabled students who cause problems?
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‘Watchdog’ versus Teachers’ Union
Is it discrimination to exclude disabled students who cause problems?
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Hip, Relevant, In Your Face
Entertaining, short, punchy, fast – poetry on tv. Next up: quantum mechanics lite.
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The Arts on Television
Why is coverage of the arts not as good as it once was on UK television?
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Philosophers Useful After All?
They can serve as logical police, with non-contradiction for a nightstick.
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News Because I Only Just Now Found It
Francis Cornford’s Microcosmographia Academica.
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Two N.Y. Times Editors Resign
Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd fall on swords in aftermath of Jayson Blair fraud.
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The N.Y. Times on the N.Y. Times
Many reporters and editors were disaffected in wake of Blair and Bragg.
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What Separation of Church and State?
What the Bush administration is doing to make religion even more intrusively mandatory in American life.
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Review of A Devil’s Chaplain
Praise for Richard Dawkins’ “marvellously contemptuous dismissal of ‘postmodernism’” and more.
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Only ‘Faith’ Schools Allowed to Discriminate
Churches successfully lobbied UK government, won right to fire gays in religious schools.
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Interview with Azar Nafisi
Ideology, politicization of every part of life, intimidation, the value of discourse.
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Exemption for ‘Faith’ Schools
Employment bill could allow religious schools to sack gay teachers.
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Can We Stop Hearing About ‘Grief Counseling’ Now?
Those people rushed to the scene to ‘help’ don’t, research has finally shown.
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Vice-Chancellors Disagree With Clarke
An instrumental view of education is not the way to go.
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Climbing Trees to Get to the Moon
Steven Pinker on why genetic enhancement is not inevitable.
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What Does ‘Negative’ Mean?
Evelyn Fox Keller and Richard Lewontin discuss some epistemological issues.