The PBS show ‘Frontline’ offers a wealth of material on the negotiations over Iraq, the UN, diplomacy, pre-emptive war, and Blair’s role.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Are Private Schools Unfair?
Adam Swift’s new book argues that educational privilege is incompatible with equality of opportunity.
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Supremes Release Tape
Wide interest in affirmative action case prompts the Supreme Court to release tape of the hearings.
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Class Divide in Education
Report ‘shows that educational success in Britain is more determined by social class than in any other country.’
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US Supreme Court Hears Affirmative Action Case
Rice backs Bush but acknowledges she was a beneficiary of Affirmative Action; Powell disagrees with the President.
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Audio of Supreme Court Debate
National Public Radio offers highlights of arguments on Affirmative Action. Hear Scalia in full sarcastic mode.
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Two Very Different Views of the War
One speaker critical of Bush’s foreign policy, one who helped create it.
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E.O. Wilson
Harvard profiles the pioneer of sociobiology.
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What is Hypocrisy?
Adam Swift examines some bad moves in the argument over education.
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Encyclopedia of Stupidity Reviewed
Bierce, Flaubert mentioned, Fashionable Dictionary inexplicably not.
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Helpful or a Source of Conflict?
Scholarships and other programs explicitly for minorities are under attack.
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Affirmative Action on Trial
US Supreme Court is to hear arguments on racial preferences in university admissions today.
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Aggressive Contempt for Popular Opinion
But what makes the journo think he has a right to look at the kitchen when he’s been refused permission? Which is the rude one here?
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Mismatch? Growing? Gulf?
Carol Tavris asks a great many skeptical questions of a new book on the gulf between women and men, and whether the cure might be worse than the disease.
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Can a Pre-emptive War Be Ethical?
It can, says a BBC panelist familiar to our readers.
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Pompously Fondling his Crucifix
The Bishop versus the Pythons. The Bish couldn’t be bothered to do his homework, and the Pythons were better-behaved.
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Gulf War Syndrome?
Elaine Showalter on an elusive disease or syndrome that generates a lot of scare headlines and not much evidence.
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Depleted Uranium
A January, 2003 report by the World Health Organization on the health effects of DU.
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Scientific American on DU
In a careful account, SciAm concludes that DU is somewhat toxic but no more so than other kinds of ammunition.
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Fear and Confusion
It is fear of the Fedayeen Saddam, not nationalism, that is keeping Iraqi civilians on the sidelines, says this reporter.