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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
Nobody has the right to not be offended
Debating Matters' acclaimed Topic Guides place debates in a social context
Justine Brian, Debating Matters, 23 January 2015
Debating Matters' acclaimed Topic Guides place debates in a social context
Justine Brian, Debating Matters, 23 January 2015
Pope Francis preaching the green gospel
The pope's embrace of climate alarmism is anti-Catholic and anti-human.
Rob Lyons, spiked, January 2015
The pope's embrace of climate alarmism is anti-Catholic and anti-human.
Rob Lyons, spiked, January 2015
Pope Francis calls for religious tolerance at mass in Sri Lanka – video
Pope Francis visits the Sri Lankan city of Colombo on Wednesday where he gives the country its first saint at a mass attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Missionary Joseph Vaz was canonised after a 300-year campaign to recognise his work. Pope Francis told the crowd they should follow Vaz's example of religious tolerance
Reuters, 14 January 2015
Pope Francis visits the Sri Lankan city of Colombo on Wednesday where he gives the country its first saint at a mass attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Missionary Joseph Vaz was canonised after a 300-year campaign to recognise his work. Pope Francis told the crowd they should follow Vaz's example of religious tolerance
Reuters, 14 January 2015
Assimilationism vs Multiculturalism
Assimilationists have long held multiculturalists policies responsible for nurturing ‘homegrown’ jihadists in Britain. Now, they are forced to answer why such terrorism has been nurtured in assimilationist France, too.
Kenan Malik, Pandaemonium, 13 January 2015
Assimilationists have long held multiculturalists policies responsible for nurturing ‘homegrown’ jihadists in Britain. Now, they are forced to answer why such terrorism has been nurtured in assimilationist France, too.
Kenan Malik, Pandaemonium, 13 January 2015
Liberalism Doesn’t Start With Liberty
In Edmund Fawcett’s new history, liberalism begins with capitalism and revolution.
Katrina Forrester, Nation, 23 December 2014
In Edmund Fawcett’s new history, liberalism begins with capitalism and revolution.
Katrina Forrester, Nation, 23 December 2014
The real problem in Ferguson, New York and all of America is institutional racism
Black men are not dying at the hands of (mostly) white cops – nor are those cops being excused from legal responsibility – because of mutual ‘distrust’
Vincent Warren, Guardian, 4 December 2014
Black men are not dying at the hands of (mostly) white cops – nor are those cops being excused from legal responsibility – because of mutual ‘distrust’
Vincent Warren, Guardian, 4 December 2014
Feminism is in danger of becoming toxic
Instead of worrying about the Rosetta scientist wearing an ‘offensive’ shirt, or Dapper Laughs, or Julien Blanc, we should be tackling the root causes of inequality
Julie Bindel, Guardian, 18 November 2014
Instead of worrying about the Rosetta scientist wearing an ‘offensive’ shirt, or Dapper Laughs, or Julien Blanc, we should be tackling the root causes of inequality
Julie Bindel, Guardian, 18 November 2014
Pope Francis and ‘the Great Division’: the Catholic civil war draws closer
The media think in terms of Francis the reformer opposed by reactionaries. There’s some truth in this, but the reality is more complicated.
Damian Thompson, Spectator, 18 November 2014
The media think in terms of Francis the reformer opposed by reactionaries. There’s some truth in this, but the reality is more complicated.
Damian Thompson, Spectator, 18 November 2014
A Catholic church schism under Pope Francis isn’t out of the question
The conservative backlash against the liberal pope’s authority has been fierce, and is gathering momentum
Andrew Brown, Guardian, 30 October 2014
The conservative backlash against the liberal pope’s authority has been fierce, and is gathering momentum
Andrew Brown, Guardian, 30 October 2014
Pope Francis’s healing, loving revolution is unstoppable
A minority of bishops clings to conservative ways but the Catholic church is slowly changing and will be holier for it.
Austen Ivereigh, Guardian, 19 October 2014
A minority of bishops clings to conservative ways but the Catholic church is slowly changing and will be holier for it.
Austen Ivereigh, Guardian, 19 October 2014
Scared of the Kids - Gun or Knife?
"The energy, verve and enthusiasm at The Battle of Ideas filled me with hope. Coming from India where so many people still lack the basic necessities that make human life worth living, it was heartening to see basic issues of equity and justice debated with such passion and fervour."
George Thomas, orthopaedic surgeon; editor, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
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