Marxist left and Hindu fundamentalist right subordinate history to political goals in India.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Are Standards and Expertise a Bad Thing?
Sarah Bryan Miller wonders, just what is an elitist anyway?
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All Entertainment All the Time
Jonathan Yardley comments on perpetual entertainment as a form of leisure.
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Watching Someone Dig With a Brush is Boring
TV prefers pseudoarchaeology to the real thing.
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Self-serving Argument #478
If you think they write bad novels it is because you are jealous, gloomy and snobbish. Of course.
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Hitchens on Blumenthal
A Theodore off-White style and keeping two sets of ethical books.
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No Kidding
Demanding schools place pressure on students, research shows. Really?!
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Hobsbawm and Hitchens
A deferential sparring match at Hay-on-Wye.
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Interview with E.O. Wilson
‘Ecology’ is about more than saving charismatic large mammals.
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Dystopias and Mad Scientists
Why is science fiction so pessimistic?
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Conflation of ‘Guerilla Theater’ With Politics
A politcs of dramatic gestures, style without substance.
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MM Logic
Television studies are mocked now as Shakespeare was then, therefore television studies are no more time-wasting than Shakespeare.
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‘Flooding the Zone’ a Mistake?
Speed instead of depth, frat boy instead of nerd, football metaphors instead of ethical probity.
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Now It Can Be Told!
Women talk, men sit and stare. Stone the crows.
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Mound of Feel-good Styrofoam Peanuts
Marketing sappy techno-utopian ‘revolution lite’ via PageRank™.
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Yes, Hip Cool Sexy People Are Phobic Too
They just hide it better, says Julie Burchill.
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Orwell Could Be Such a Misery
But he would have cut ‘today’s higher theoreticians’ to shreds.
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Jayson Blair Talks
‘I just couldn’t stop laughing.’
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Blooming Buzzing Confusion
Do we see what we see or is our brain stitching it all together?
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How to Win the Argument Against Philistinism
‘Not the kind of knowledge that flatters authorities,’ Frank Furedi says.