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

Waiting for the lights to go out
We've taken the past 200 years of prosperity for granted. Humanity's progress is stalling, we are facing a new era of decay, and nobody is clever enough to fix it. Is the future really that black, asks Bryan Appleyard
Bryan Appleyard, The Times, 16 October 2005

The Overpraised American
Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism revisited
Christine Rosen, Policy Review, October 2005

The virtual library
Sandy Starr, spiked, 22 September 2005

Safeguarding Children: Early Intervention and Surveillance in a Late Modern Society

This new text by a recognized authority offers a clear, invigorating and theoretically sophisticated commentary on child abuse and child welfare policy

Nigel Parton, Palgrave Macmillan, 20 September 2005

The decline of the public library
Philip Pettifor, spiked, 1 September 2005

The Myth of Sisyphus

'The struggle itself...is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.'

Albert Camus, Penguin, 25 August 2005

Wide Open: Open source methods and their future potential
Open source methodology has the potential to give people forms of power that they have either lost or never had
Geoff Mulgan, Omar Salem and Tom Steinberg, Demos, 19 April 2005

Going to the blogs?
The idea that blogging might be the salvation of politics seems not just to overstate the impact of the Internet, but to understate the problem of public disenchantment with politics
Kenan Malik, BBC, 30 March 2005

Creationism, pluralism and the compromising of science
Joe Kaplinsky, spiked, 28 February 2005

When does life begin?
It depends who you ask. Some groups say life begins as soon as a sperm fuses with an egg. Others believe the boundary is more blurred.
Ian Sample, Guardian, 10 February 2005


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