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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Does the 'denial industry' allow the wrongheaded to posture as victims of censorship?
George Monbiot, The Guardian, 12 March 2007
When historians of the future try to identify the moment that neuroscience began to transform the American legal system, they may point to a little-noticed case from the early 1990s.
Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times, 11 March 2007
'Neuroscience, it seems, points two ways: it can absolve individuals of responsibility for acts they've committed, but it can also place individuals in jeopardy for acts they haven't committed - but might someday'
Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times, 10 March 2007
There is a choice between a ‘Big Brother’ world where privacy is almost extinct and a world where the data are kept by individual organisations or services and kept secret and secure
Nigel Gilbert, et al, Royal Academy of Engineering, 28 February 2007
It seems that if smoking did not exist today, the anti-smoking addicts would have to invent it
Mick Hume, The Times, 16 February 2007
An overview of European attempts to legally prohibit Holocaust denial
Clare Murphy, BBC News, 6 February 2007
No platform for racists and fascists! A statement from a member of 'No borders London' explaining her refusal to debate the spokesperson of Migration Watch UK
Teresa Hayter, No Borders London, 28 January 2007
Philippe Legrain, Little, Brown, 4 January 2007
Your Culture or Mine? - Chris Frayling
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