Cynthia Ozick believes stories occupy a realm separate from life, and that includes politics.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Hitchens on Amis Major
Kingsley Amis thought of boredom as a form of tyranny.
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Meritocracy
Philosophers and political theorists disagree with popular belief that special rewards are deserved.
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Gitlin Meets Fallows
And they talk about media saturation.
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Middle Mind
Funny, ruthless dissection of the ‘Fresh Air’ mindset.
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Dwight Macdonald
Right when he said no, wrong when he said yes.
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Lingua Franca
Judith Shulevitz on making a magazine weird.
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Multiculti lite
A global education? Or merely a little Arundhati Roy here, a little Toni Morrisson there.
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Magical energy in alternative medicine
Misuse of scientific terms gives credibility to woo-woo.
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Germaine Greer on Women and Poetry
The interrelationship between rhyme and emphasis.
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Nussbaum on Rawls
Martha Nussbaum on John Rawls in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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The Goddess is Bunk
Charlotte Allen looks at Wicca.
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Freud and Fabrication
Freud’s stories.
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Nagel on Rawls
Thomas Nagel on John Rawls in The New Republic.