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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Health & Well-being

Aristotle, Emotions, and Education

What can Aristotle teach us that is relevant to contemporary moral and educational concerns? What can we learn from him about the nature of moral development, the justifiability and educability of emotions, the possibility of friendship between parents and their children, or the fundamental aims of teaching?

Kristjan Kristjansson, Ashgate, 8 August 2007

Rehab? No, no, no!
Emily Hill, spiked, 26 July 2007

The war on obesity is a war on the poor
Rob Lyons, spiked, 25 July 2007

A ‘fat tax’? Get stuffed
Rob Lyons, spiked, 16 July 2007

Kabbalah: therapy with a dash of mysticism
Nathalie Rothschild, spiked, 3 July 2007

Achtung: If you’re fat you’re anti-social
Matthias Heitmann, spiked, 3 July 2007

The global crusade against the 'evil weed'
spiked authors, spiked, 28 June 2007

Prohibition by stealth
First they came for the lager-drinkers; now they're coming for champagne socialists. New Labour's battle against booze is heralding a new era of miserabilist puritanism.
Neil Davenport, spiked, 6 June 2007

Gene therapy: how science moved from hype to hope
‘Magic bullets’ for killer diseases were once the medical goal, but only now is the true value of genetics being understood – and it’s the many, not the few, who will benefit.
Mark Henderson, The Times, 2 June 2007

Hard up NHS cuts back on unproven homeopathy treatment
Pressure from doctors coupled with financial concerns has seen the NHS reduce investment in CAM
Mark Henderson, The Times, 22 May 2007


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