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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Two great liberal preoccupations -- our celebration of cultural difference and the fight against inequality -- go hand in hand, right? Wrong. Incredibly wrong.
Walter Benn Michaels , The American Prospect, 13 August 2006
The venom that greeted my speech on religious prejudice was the work of Scotland's bigoted press.
James MacMillan, Guardian Comment is free, 7 August 2006
Before the state goes any further in its attempt to make the rest of us better parents, maybe it should take a look at what is going on in its own back yard
Fiona Millar, Guardian, 11 July 2006
Ethical consumption might be less significant in purely economic terms than is often claimed. But it might be more significant in political terms than is often acknowledged
Clive Barnett, Nick Clarke PaulCloke and Alice Malpass, Interdependence day newspaper, 30 June 2006
Don’t rejoice in the irony that social workers are now having their private lives interrogated by an unaccountable body – it’s an ominous sign of the times.
Ken McLaughlin, spiked, 26 June 2006
Karl-Heinrich Bette & Uwe Schimank, Transcript, May 2006
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