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

Introduction: Ideas, Intellectuals and the Public
The relationship between intellectuals and the public is an awkward one. To play their traditional role, intellectuals certainly need the public. But does the public need intellectuals?
Dolan Cummings, Academy of Ideas, June 2003

Authors find global knowledge lacking
Terrorists do not attack America because of what it is, as American apologists of both left and right claim. They do so, rather, because of what it's done
Steven E. Alford, Houston Chronicle , 27 February 2003

For whom the road tolls
The 'blue skies' thinking for UK transport is…find more and more ways to stop people from driving.
Austin Williams, spiked, 28 November 2002

A Question of Trust
We say we no longer trust our public services, institutions or the people who run them. Politicians, accountants, doctors, scientists, businessmen, auditors and many others are treated with suspicion. Their word is doubted, their motives are questioned.
Onora O'Neill, BBC Radio 4, 2002

Greater than all the parts
A review of the work of Robert Rodriguez, a writer whose oeuvre draws from America's "'mixed, confused, lumped, impure, unpasteurized'" sense of both its past and its future
Anthony Walton, New York Times, 6 April 2002

The Imaginary Time Bomb: Why an Ageing Population Is Not a Social Problem

The modern world's growing preoccupation with ageing has little or nothing to do with demography but rather that it is used to justify further reductions in the role of government in the economy and the curbing of the welfare state

Phil Mullan, I B Tauris, 25 January 2002

Children as Philosophers

This book was written with the belief that philosophy, the use of reason and argument in seeking truth and knowledge of reality, can assist with children's thinking, speaking and listening skills as well as providing a stimulus and structure for morals enquiry within the PSE/citizenship curriculum.

Joanna Haynes, Routledge, 22 November 2001

The Social Consequences of Hypermobility
Mobility is liberating and empowering. But it is possible to have too much of a good thing. The growth in the numbers exercising their freedom and power is fouling the planet and jamming its arteries.
John Adams, RSA, 21 November 2001

The Battle for Truth: Defending the Christian Worldview in the Marketplace of Ideas

Comparing Humanism, Marxism/Leninism, and the New Age movement with biblical truth to affirm the coherence and truthfulness of Christianity.

David Noebel, Harvest House Publishers, 15 August 2001

The Holocaust and Collective Memory: the American Experience

How and when did the Holocaust come to loom so large in postwar Jewish and American and international life? In the first decades after World War II, the Holocaust was little talked about, but after the Six-Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973) it began to assume central importance as a defining factor of Jewishness. With the release of Claude Lanzmann's documentary "Shoah" (1985), the Holocaust had become the moral issue of the twentieth century.

Peter Novick, Bloomsbury, 2001


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