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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Liberty & Law

The new Chief Inquisitor on campus
Frank Furedi, spiked, 16 February 2005

The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age

In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Americans have been willing to give up their liberty, not for security, but for the illusion of security.

Jeffrey Rosen, Random House Trade, 11 January 2005

Telling truth from lie in individual subjects with fast event related fMRI
The first quantitative estimate of the accuracy of fMRI in conjunction with a forced-choice paradigm in detecting deception in individual subjects
Daniel D. Langleben James W. Loughead, Warren B.Bilker, Kosha Ruparel, Anna Rose Childress, Samantha l. Busch and Ruben C Gur, Human Brain Mapping 26, 2004

Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs in sport
The legalisation of drugs in sport may be fairer and safer
J Savulescu, B Foddy and M Clayton, British Journal of Sports Medicine 38:666-670, 2004

Why should we defend the veil?
Even if hijab-wearing is a genuine choice, does that make it obligatory for us to respect it? Any more than hijab-wearers respect women who wear shamefully little? What we would not ban, we do not have to condone.
Cathrine Bennet, Guardian, 22 January 2004

An open debate on open borders:reply to Stephen Castles
'Restrictions at the borders are growing ever tighter, and as the restrictions increase so does the price that people are forced to pay in order to enter Europe'
Liza Schuster, openDemocracy, 28 December 2003

A fair migration policy- without open borders
International migration is a transfer of value from poor countries to rich countries, taking human capital and the educational resources of the less developed world and using them in rich countries
Stephen Castles, openDemocracy, 28 December 2003

A probe inside the mind of the shopper
Until recently MRI had been used only in clinics, now labaratory insights are being matched to the needs of marketing managers
Jerome Burne, Financial Times, 26 November 2003

Juries on trial: can we trust these people?
Roy Amlot, QC, a former Bar Council chairman, argues that independent juries are essential to the democratic process
Roy Amlot, The Times, 1 July 2003

Open borders: A future for Europe, migrants and the world economy
Protectionism here is, as elsewhere, directed to fruitless attempts to capture benefits for a minority at the cost of the world at large
Nigel Harris, openDemocracy, 12 June 2003


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