An excerpt from a book by the late scholar of international relations, on the history of the status of civilians in war.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Affirmative Action and the War
Yale Political Scientist Jim Sleeper on the complexities and contradictions of identity politics.
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Blackburn contra Rorty
If Truth and Reason are over, what about the maps and timetables you used to get here to say so?
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The Awkward Squad Asks Sharper Questions
Staging, spin, starstruck questions from US journalists, rationed information. But then Chinese and Arab journalists may have their own blinders.
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Analysis of Impunity Agreements
Why would a country seek blanket immunity from the international criminal court?
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Sauce for the Goose?
Correspondents to the Guardian wonder how the US can appeal to the Geneva convention.
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Eurosneering
Cowboys on one side of the pond, castrated girly pacifists on the other.
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TV Trumps Books
Iran was confining, especially for a female teacher, but the students cared about the books.
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Survey Shows Abuse of Teachers
School management often makes teachers feel it’s their own fault.
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Ignatieff on Empire
Michael Ignatieff on the complications of intervention and nation-building.
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Exaggeration
Bristol’s admissions policies not so very skewed toward state school applicants after all, expert says.
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Sectarian Slaughter in Kashmir
The body-count is 24 in the latest chapter of Hindu-Muslim fight over Kashmir.
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Consequential versus Deontological Objections
‘Evaluating risks is not the same as making moral choices.’
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Free Will or Free Won’t?
David Barash reviews Freedom Evolves.
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Competing Studies
One study finds affirmative action helps education, another doesn’t.
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One Bit of Good News
Anthony Julius’ new book will ‘make it impossible for art critics and curators ever again to utter the word ”transgressive” in a tone of unqualified admiration.’
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Orwell on Iraq
Bernard Crick ponders what Orwell might have thought of it all.
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It Was a Joke
New Orleans’ French Quarter won’t be re-named the Freedom Quarter after all.
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Roxxof?? And That’s Not a Joke?
Who says capitalism is daft! Targeting aphrodisiac alcoholic drinks at yoof – a brilliant idea! Add steroids and you’ve got perfection.
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Geneticists and the Deity
So if this God knew about cystic fibrosis, why keep it a secret? And who defines ‘respectable theologians’?