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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Lifestyle & Society
Britain could be a rubbish-free society says ground-breaking study
Waste, reports Greenpeace, is simply a resource that has gone unrecognised as such
staff writer, Greenpeace UK, 17 March 2002
Waste, reports Greenpeace, is simply a resource that has gone unrecognised as such
staff writer, Greenpeace UK, 17 March 2002
Professionalism and trust — the future of teachers and teaching
A speech to the Social Market Foundation
Estelle Morris, teachernet, 12 November 2001
A speech to the Social Market Foundation
Estelle Morris, teachernet, 12 November 2001
What's not cricket?
Meet Angus Calder: Scot, poet and cricket fan.
Angus Calder, spiked, 25 May 2001
Meet Angus Calder: Scot, poet and cricket fan.
Angus Calder, spiked, 25 May 2001
The measurement and recording of alcohol-related violence and disorder
There are no official statistics collected systematically making it impossible to gain a true picture of the role of alcohol in crime at a national level
Social Issues Research Centre, Social Issues Research Centre, 2001
You've Got an Attitude
The philosopher Richard Wollheim tackles the emotions
Paul Mattick, New York Times, 26 March 2000
The philosopher Richard Wollheim tackles the emotions
Paul Mattick, New York Times, 26 March 2000
The Personal Is Not the Political
Politics is the space we create in common by virtue of what we can share with each other in the public sphere.
Seyla Benhabib, Boston Review, 1 October 1999
Politics is the space we create in common by virtue of what we can share with each other in the public sphere.
Seyla Benhabib, Boston Review, 1 October 1999
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
The Physiology of Taste
'The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.'
Jean Antheleme Brillat-Savarin, Penguin Classics, 27 January 1994


