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

The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Noam Chomsky, New York Review of Books, 23 February 1963

Politics and the English Language
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.
George Orwell, Horizon, 1 April 1946

Every cook can govern.
A study of democracy in Ancient Greece, its meaning today
C. L. R. James, Correspondence, 18 January 1938


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