Blumnethal on Clinton is not Saint Simon on Louis XIV, unfortunately.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Where Did ‘Theory’ Come From?
Morris Dickstein considers some roots.
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‘Infallible for 152 years, and now this! Oy!’
Cronies, star systems, sanctimony, glitz – the Times after the Blair meltdown.
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Damasio on Spinoza
His dissent on the prevailing view of the mind-body problem stood out in a sea of conformity.
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These Predictions are Postdictions
Michael Shermer looks at Moby Dick and the Bible as secret decoder devices.
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Journalism, Truth, and ‘Truth’
Julian Baggini says journalism’s goal of objectivity is neither anachronistic nor incoherent.
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The Presentation of Self in Presidential Life
Ordinary millionaires without neckties and other varieties of manipulation.
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A Heretic in the Church of Traumatology
New study of memory and repression won’t please ‘the psychobabblers and the melodramatists and the daytime-television bookers.’
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Gerald Holton Interviewed
The physicist, author of ‘Einstein, History and Other Passions’ talks about his work for Reagan’s commission on school reform.
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Dodgy Educations?
What a lot of people in the Labour Cabinet studied useless subjects at university.
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A Few Bags of Cheez Doodles Later
Editor & Publisher asks some cogent (and laugh-provoking) questions about the ‘Blair Watch Project’.
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Neuroethics
Steven Rose wonders about epidemics of depression and Ritalin use, the possibility of ‘smart drugs,’ and whether drugs are a cheap fix for social problems.
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Robert Park’s Column
Virtuous Bill is math-challenged and a loser, Wall Street Journal takes herbal medicine claim at face value.
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A Huge Black Eye
The Washington Post on the fraudulent reporter at the New York Times.
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Most Hated Books
Tolkien, Iris Murdoch, Derrida, Jeffrey Archer? Harry Potter, Possession, Atonement, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin?
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New York Times not Relativists About Truth
Story on a reporter’s fraud says the cardinal tenet of journalism is simply truth.
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Ars Gratia Marketing
There is a difference between content and wrapping, says the founder of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow.
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Ornamentalism
The idea of education for its own sake is a bit dodgy?
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Historians and Clarke
The Times Higher on the Education Secretary’s views of history and historians’ views of him.
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Clarke on History
Another attack on learning for learning’s sake, THES says.