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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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 These attempts have occurred in the arena of health care, specifically over legislative efforts to counteract out-of-date regulatory policies and unethical and questionable religious restrictions on some services at Catholic and Catholic-controlled hospitals.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

Energy Source
Daily insight into the financial, economic and policy aspects of energy and the environment.
Tom Burgis, Financial Times

Campaign Against the Booze Bans
There has been a creeping introduction of alcohol bans in public spaces all around the UK .We believe public space should be exactly that - a place where we can come together as a public - to argue and campaign, to pursue our common goals, to chat with friends and socialise.
Manifesto Club

The New Science of Morality
An Edge Conference
Sam Harris, Edge

Biography of Buckminster Fuller
Hailed as "one of the greatest minds of our times, R. Buckminster Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems
Buckminster Fuller Institute,

The Art-Work of the Future
As Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously evolved. In like manner, as soon as human life had engendered from itself the conditions for the manifestment of Art-work, this too stepped self-begotten into life. Link downloads a .pdf
Richard Wagner, translated by William Ashton Ellis, The Wagner Library

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

What philosophy with children is not
Increasingly the theory and practice of Philosophy with Children (P4C) is critiqued by colleagues in academia. This Symposium opens up a space to respond to some of this critique.
Karin Murris et al, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain,

wilmott.com FORUMS
Wilmott is the leading resource for the Quantitative Finance community; presenting the very latest thinking in derivatives, risk modeling and quantitative techniques, and bringing together both academics and practitioners to further develop these ideas, share information, and critique theory through practice. Discussion occurs through a very active online forum.
wilmott.com


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