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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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
Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism revisited
Christine Rosen, Policy Review, October 2005
Nigel Parton, Palgrave Macmillan, 20 September 2005
Given two years ago at a community centre in Watford, this speech outlines parents' culpability in the era of 'anti-social behaviour'
Tony Blair, 10 Downing Street, 1 September 2005
How contemporary social work theory nurtured the new authoritarianism.
Ken McLaughlin, spiked, 24 August 2005
The only debate over Britain's licensing laws is about how to keep pissed proles in their place.
Brendan O’Neill, spiked, 11 August 2005
What the responses to the killing of Anthony Walker in Liverpool and the failed bombings in London reveal about contemporary Britain.
Michael Fitzpatrick, spiked, 5 August 2005
C.L.R. James, Yellow Jersey Press, 7 July 2005
Peter Marsh, Willan Publishing, 1 July 2005
The Credit Crunch Demystified
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