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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Politics & Ideology

That joke isn’t funny anymore
What's the point of satire when comedians fail to tackle the new taboos?
Niall Crowley, spiked, 2 February 2006

The curious rise of anti-religious hysteria
Frank Furedi, spiked, 22 January 2006

Disconnected: Why Our Kids are Turning Their Backs on Everything We Thought We Knew

In the spirit of No Logo and Fast Food Nation, Disconnected is the author's journey into modern youth culture, meeting and speaking to hundreds of kids on the way.

Nick Barham, Ebury Press, 5 January 2006

America alone

Drawing on demographic trends that show falling birth rates in the West comapred to the ever expanding Islamic world, this book presents Western civilisation as willing its own extinction

Mark Steyn, Regnery Publishing Inc., 2006

What this cultural debate needs is more dirt, less pure stupidity
No question about it: it’s harder to celebrate polyculture when Belgian women are being persuaded by Belgians “of North African descent” to blow themselves — and others — up.
Salman Rushdie, The Times, 10 December 2005

Making a Difference: culture, race and social policy
Ironically, the idea of cultural diversity has captured the political imagination just as anthropologists themselves have started worrying about the concept. They have come to realise not just that the notion of cultural diversity is not self-evidently good but also that the concept of culture is not self-evident.
Kenan Malik, kenanmalik.com, December 2005

Ambiguity and America: South Africa and US Foreign Policy
The reaction in the US to racial oppression and racial discrimination, and the manner in which it shaped the foreign policy of the US with respect to South Africa, reflects a long-standing ambivalence about the promotion of and compliance with international human rights principles.
Richard Goldstone, Social Research, December 2005

Making a difference: culture, race and social policy
Why have we become obsessed with cultural differences at a time when real cultural differences have less and less meaning in our lives?
Kenan Malik, Patterns of Prejudice, November 2005

Just say no
Opposed to SUVs, shopping, and being slightly fat, contemporary rebellion takes the form of a moral opprobrium of which Oliver Cromwell would be proud
Lucy Siegle, Observer, 22 October 2005

Multiculturalism and 7/7: neither problem nor solution
Whether advocating Britishness or sticking up for multiculturalism, both sides are locked into the 'dead end of identity politics'
Paul Kelly, openDemocracy, 19 October 2005


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