Paulin considers the mystery of Hazlitt’s neglect.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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American Science Under Threat
How US science is in trouble on a number of fronts, because of religious pressures from the Bush administration.
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No to Misuse of Genetic Tests
UK government advisors recommend strict control of genetic testing.
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Internet Porn, Unfettered Access, Harassment
Librarians file suit over threatening behavior by porn viewers and library policy of non-interference.
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MEPs Vote Against Stem Cell Research
Christian Conservatives set agenda in European stem cell research debate.
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Culture Clash
A commitment to gender equality is an indicator of commitment to egalitarianism and tolerance overall.
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Nonsense About ‘Partisan Bickering’
The US Right is proud to be partisan, the Left (what there is of it) is keen to roll over and die.
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Napoleon is Almost at the Gates
Franco-phobia and the long-standing joke about the leftist bias of the US media.
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Greenhouse gases in the middle ages?
Perhaps global warming isn’t only a modern phenomenon…
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Geeks Can Be Altruistic Too
They’re not all Ayn Randian Cyberselfish stock option millionaires, some are underpaid, overworked human rights researchers.
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Which is Pollyanna, Which is Jeremiah?
Complacency about the status quo can be at least as dangerous as optimism about new technology, Matt Ridley argues.
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Is Literature a Girly Subject?
Is it about ‘being honest about your feelings’? What should secondary school students read?
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‘The Hook-handed Cleric’
Is it hysteria, or caution born of experience, that prompts fears about ‘radical Muslim clerics’?
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Those Endless Twin Studies
Exactly how much do genes determine? Natalie Angier says nobody knows yet.
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Insightful on Flabby Presuppositions
Daniel Dennett joins his enthusiasm for Darwinian biology to years of thinking about free will in ‘Freedom Evolves’.
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Michael Kelly
Four New Republic writers on disliking Kelly’s politics while loving his personal qualities.
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Jagged and Brittle Style
Slate adds that the hostile voice of Kelly’s column was hard to square with his personality.
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‘Meritocracy’ is a Canard
Louis Menand says American education is not meritocratic and never has been.
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Interview with Azar Nafisi
Female genital mutilation, oppression in general, should not be brushed off as someone’s ‘culture’, Iranian teacher in exile says.
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A Divided Left
Paul Berman, Timothy Garton Ash, David Rieff discuss the Iraq war.