Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Politics & Ideology

Rebecca M. Jordan-Young speaking about her book, Brain Storm
In this compelling book, Rebecca Jordan-Young takes on the evidence that sex differences are hardwired into the brain. Analyzing virtually all published research that supports the claims of “human brain organization theory,” Jordan-Young reveals how often these studies fail the standards of science.
WGBH

Is crowd-funding the future for documentaries?
While fundraising websites offer documentary-makers a novel way to finance projects, the concept has its flaws
Kate Bulkley, Guardian

Park 51 Blog
The blog of Park 51, formerly 'Corboda House', the cultural centre at the focus of the debate
Park 51

Immigration Reform
Our broken immigration system has led to a civil rights and liberties crisis in New York and across the country. The NYCLU and our allies are mobilizing throughout the state to make sure Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform this year that protects everybody’s rights.
NYCLU

Immigrants' Rights
The NYCLU has long been a strong defender of the rights of immigrants in New York, as the state has one of the largest and most diverse immigrant populations in the United States.
NYCLU

Religious Freedom & Catholic Health Care
Over the last decade, there have been attempts to turn the meaning of religious freedom on its head. These attempts have occurred in the arena of health care, specifically over legislative efforts to counteract out-of-date regulatory policies and unethical and questionable religious restrictions on some services at Catholic and Catholic-controlled hospitals.
Catholics for Choice

Men vote for Mars, women vote for Venus
ComRes pollster analyses the differences in voting behaviour between men and women.
Andrew Hawkins, Total Politics

Database master class
This is a blog project designed to give you your very own cut-out'n'keep guide to all of the children's databases
Action on Rights for Children

How the West Really Lost God
Secularisation depends just as much on the erosion of the family as the withering of belief
Mary Eberstadt, Policy Review, June/July 2006,

Repressive Tolerance
The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed.
Herbert Marcuse, Beacon Press, 1965


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