Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
Choose a theme from the listing on the left to narrow your search, or view all readings.
Waste, reports Greenpeace, is simply a resource that has gone unrecognised as such
staff writer, Greenpeace UK, 17 March 2002
A speech to the Social Market Foundation
Estelle Morris, teachernet, 12 November 2001
Meet Angus Calder: Scot, poet and cricket fan.
Angus Calder, spiked, 25 May 2001
Social Issues Research Centre, Social Issues Research Centre, 2001
The philosopher Richard Wollheim tackles the emotions
Paul Mattick, New York Times, 26 March 2000
Politics is the space we create in common by virtue of what we can share with each other in the public sphere.
Seyla Benhabib, Boston Review, 1 October 1999
James L. Nolan, New York University Press, 31 January 1998
Jean Antheleme Brillat-Savarin, Penguin Classics, 27 January 1994
What's the point of the social sciences?
"The Battle of Ideas is free of that stifling British squeamishness about the serious discussion of ideas. It offers a rare chance to join the dots in contemporary politics and culture."
Eliane Glaser, writer & broadcaster; author, Get Real