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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Lifestyle & Society
Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? by Mick Hume – review
Should we be allowed to say anything? What about hate speech? Do complaints about verbal cruelty patronise and insult? Yes, but …
Galen Strawson, Guardian, 28 August 2015
Should we be allowed to say anything? What about hate speech? Do complaints about verbal cruelty patronise and insult? Yes, but …
Galen Strawson, Guardian, 28 August 2015
Mindfulness: Lobotomisation by proxy
This latest therapeutic fad encourages us to retreat from life.
Patrick West, spiked, 21 August 2015
This latest therapeutic fad encourages us to retreat from life.
Patrick West, spiked, 21 August 2015
Stop blaming the baby boomers. Some are trying to save the world
It’s hard to marry the concept of boomer selfishness with the activism of these ‘grey-haired’ protesters fighting on behalf of their grandchildren
Van Badham, Guardian, 13 August 2015
It’s hard to marry the concept of boomer selfishness with the activism of these ‘grey-haired’ protesters fighting on behalf of their grandchildren
Van Badham, Guardian, 13 August 2015
How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation
It started with two college students who were sick of people victim-blaming rape victims.
Kaitlynn Mendes, AlterNet, 12 August 2015
It started with two college students who were sick of people victim-blaming rape victims.
Kaitlynn Mendes, AlterNet, 12 August 2015
Why Alice is still wonderful
Lewis Carroll knew the secret to children's stories – never moralise.
James Woudhuysen, spiked, 24 July 2015
Lewis Carroll knew the secret to children's stories – never moralise.
James Woudhuysen, spiked, 24 July 2015
Generationally divided we fall
A review of Jennie Bristow's Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict
Tim Black, spiked, 24 July 2015
A review of Jennie Bristow's Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict
Tim Black, spiked, 24 July 2015
What's innovation good for?
"To contribute to Battle of Ideas is to add a few words to a giant, communal speech-bubble out of the gap-toothed mouth of British opinion. It is a strong reminder that the joys of free, uncalculated speech and the right to attack orthodoxies can in no way be assumed in 2012 – that we use them or lose them."
Piers Hellawell, composer; professor of composition, Queen’s University Belfast
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