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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Health & Well-being
Aristotle, Emotions, and Education
What can Aristotle teach us that is relevant to contemporary moral and educational concerns? What can we learn from him about the nature of moral development, the justifiability and educability of emotions, the possibility of friendship between parents and their children, or the fundamental aims of teaching?
Kristjan Kristjansson, Ashgate, 8 August 2007
Prohibition by stealth
First they came for the lager-drinkers; now they're coming for champagne socialists. New Labour's battle against booze is heralding a new era of miserabilist puritanism.
Neil Davenport, spiked, 6 June 2007
First they came for the lager-drinkers; now they're coming for champagne socialists. New Labour's battle against booze is heralding a new era of miserabilist puritanism.
Neil Davenport, spiked, 6 June 2007
Gene therapy: how science moved from hype to hope
‘Magic bullets’ for killer diseases were once the medical goal, but only now is the true value of genetics being understood – and it’s the many, not the few, who will benefit.
Mark Henderson, The Times, 2 June 2007
‘Magic bullets’ for killer diseases were once the medical goal, but only now is the true value of genetics being understood – and it’s the many, not the few, who will benefit.
Mark Henderson, The Times, 2 June 2007
Hard up NHS cuts back on unproven homeopathy treatment
Pressure from doctors coupled with financial concerns has seen the NHS reduce investment in CAM
Mark Henderson, The Times, 22 May 2007
Pressure from doctors coupled with financial concerns has seen the NHS reduce investment in CAM
Mark Henderson, The Times, 22 May 2007
China & India: Catching Up With the West?
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