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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Recent Readings
Britain's caring consumers
Consumption in private and public life is a central concern in 2007, stretching from public services reform and the rise of ethical consumerism to debates about sustainability
Professor Frank Trentmann, Britain Today, 2007,
Consumption in private and public life is a central concern in 2007, stretching from public services reform and the rise of ethical consumerism to debates about sustainability
Professor Frank Trentmann, Britain Today, 2007,
How the West Really Lost God
Secularisation depends just as much on the erosion of the family as the withering of belief
Mary Eberstadt, Policy Review, June/July 2006,
Secularisation depends just as much on the erosion of the family as the withering of belief
Mary Eberstadt, Policy Review, June/July 2006,
Music Manifesto website
The musical education strategy for the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport and the Department for Education and Skills
The musical education strategy for the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport and the Department for Education and Skills
Muzak, Background music, and anti-noise
A sound designed to be heard but not listened to is everywhere mediating our relationship with the world
Mike Brown, EST, Issue Four, Summer 1993
A sound designed to be heard but not listened to is everywhere mediating our relationship with the world
Mike Brown, EST, Issue Four, Summer 1993
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U TXTng 2 me? Young people, mobiles and social networking
spiked/o2 online debate
spiked, September 2006 - November 2006
spiked/o2 online debate
spiked, September 2006 - November 2006
Machiavelli: a Dissection
S. Anglo, New York, 1969
Repressive Tolerance
The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed.
Herbert Marcuse, Beacon Press, 1965
The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed.
Herbert Marcuse, Beacon Press, 1965
What does it mean to be a liberal today?
"The Battle of Ideas was a great success; it enabled large numbers of people to hear and interact with well-known speakers who have thought about and contributed significantly to the discussions of many important issues."
Richard Swinburne, emeritus professor, philosophy of religion, University of Oxford; author, 'The Existence of God and The Evolution of the Soul'
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