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

Terminal 5 Inquiry: The implications of climate change for the future of air travel
It is clear that, in light of the scale of reduction needed, no substantial sector of the economy can be excused from reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, and especially those fossil fuel-consuming ones contributing most damage.
Mayer Hillman, Government of London, 1 April 1998

The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century's End

An analysis of the commingling of the therapeutic and political cultures in America looking at trends such as the emotivist ethic, the pathologization of human behavior and the rise of a new priestly class in the state.

James L. Nolan, New York University Press, 31 January 1998

Population and Development: A Critical Introduction

Western preoccupation with population growth reveals more about the internal concerns of western societies than the socio–economic development of the south

Frank Furedi, Polity Press, 1997

Cultural Relativism
Cultural relativism, a doctrine originating in American cultural anthropology, has at least two components. The first component is factual: judgements about the world and judgements of value vary widely from culture to culture. The second component is philosophical: assessment of claims about the world and about morality is also culture-dependent.
I. C. Jarvie, York University, 1995

Declaration of the Principles of Tolerance
Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human.
UNESCO, 1995

Betting on the planet
Retells the story of the famous population/resources wager between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich
John Tierney, New York Times, 2 December 1990

Time Essay: How to Defuse the Population Bomb
World population growth—and how to slow it—continues to be a subject of great controversy. The planet's poorest nations have yet to find effective ways to check their population increase—at least without restricting citizens' rights and violating such traditions as the custom of having large families as insurance in old age.
Time, 24 October 1977

Don’t shout at the telly: Tolerance
Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of Ideas is the guest expert on this fascinating in depth, on the sofa discussion on tolerance.
WORLDbytes

Food for thought: Scottish Independence?
With the referendum on Scottish independence on the cards this September, WORLDbytes volunteers hosted this new show entitled ‘Food for thought’ to get to grips with what is going on
WORLDbytes

Views on the streets: Why have young Brits joined ISIS killers?
In this short video WORLDbytes volunteers tackle a hard subject on the street and ask what drives young people to join ISIS barbarians in Syria and Iraq?
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