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
Urbanscale
A New York City-based urban systems design practice — urbanists, interaction designers, cartographers, graphic designers, interface specialists and software developers united by a deep love for big-city life
A New York City-based urban systems design practice — urbanists, interaction designers, cartographers, graphic designers, interface specialists and software developers united by a deep love for big-city life
The Ethics of Eating: why environmentalism starts at the breakfast table
The choices we make when we buy food are serious choices. More and more people understand this. They no longer see themselves as passive food 'consumers'. Rather, they embrace their roles as 'creators', knowing that the foods they decide to grow or purchase will create a different future for themselves, their families, generations to come, and the natural world.
Alice Waters, Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
The choices we make when we buy food are serious choices. More and more people understand this. They no longer see themselves as passive food 'consumers'. Rather, they embrace their roles as 'creators', knowing that the foods they decide to grow or purchase will create a different future for themselves, their families, generations to come, and the natural world.
Alice Waters, Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century
This collection of essays takes a multidisciplinary approach to Islamophobia, bringing together the expertise and experience of Muslim, American, and European scholars. Analysis is combined with policy recommendations. Contributors discuss and evaluate good practices already in place and offer new methods for dealing with discrimination, hatred, and racism.
John L. Esposito (Editor) and Ibrahim Kalin (Editor) , OUP USA,
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
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
Manifesto for Competitive Sport
A Manifesto for the reintroduction of competition in schools by a tennis coach
Dan Travis, Manifesto Club
A Manifesto for the reintroduction of competition in schools by a tennis coach
Dan Travis, Manifesto Club
Reality Bytes: Eight Myths about Video Games debunked
A large gap exists between the public's perception of video games and what the research actually shows. The following is an attempt to separate fact from fiction.
Henry Jenkins, PBS
A large gap exists between the public's perception of video games and what the research actually shows. The following is an attempt to separate fact from fiction.
Henry Jenkins, PBS
Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective
We have to eat; we like to eat; eating makes us feel good; it is more important than sex. To ensure genetic survival the sex urge need only be satisfied a few times in a lifetime; the hunger urge must be satisfied every day.
Robin Fox, Social Issues Research Centre
We have to eat; we like to eat; eating makes us feel good; it is more important than sex. To ensure genetic survival the sex urge need only be satisfied a few times in a lifetime; the hunger urge must be satisfied every day.
Robin Fox, Social Issues Research Centre
Do you think that we have a need in society to demonise parents who don't play by the rules?
Edited transcript of a live online chat with sociologist Frank Furedi, author of Paranoid Parenting
mumsnet
Edited transcript of a live online chat with sociologist Frank Furedi, author of Paranoid Parenting
mumsnet
Abortion
The abortion debate asks whether it can be morally right to terminate a pregnancy before normal childbirth.
BBC Religion and Ethics,
The abortion debate asks whether it can be morally right to terminate a pregnancy before normal childbirth.
BBC Religion and Ethics,
The trillion dollar question: is the US economy resurgent or dependent?
"The 2012 Battle of Ideas at the Barbican was the best ever. It was bustling with interesting people, punchy debates and new ideas. I can't wait for 2013's."
Philippe Legrain, adviser to José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission
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