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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What is UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body based in Nyon, Switzerland, doing debating the content of Rangers FC's chants?
Dolan Cummings, spiked, 25 April 2006
‘No one's religious convictions can be thought to trump the freedom that makes democracy possible’
Ronald Dworkin, New York Review of Books, 22 March 2006
I know this isn't all about me, but the row about those Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed has made my life a misery.
Martin Rowson, New Humanist, 2 March 2006
News report outlining the vetting bill (from Spring last year)
staff writer, BBC News, 28 February 2006
News report outlining the bill from spring last year
staff writer, BBC, 28 February 2006
All of this heat about the Danish cartoons is shedding no light on the important questions of free speech, genuine tolerance, multiculturalism and society today
Mick Hume, spiked, 6 February 2006
Anthony W. Pereira, University of Pittsburgh Press, 31 October 2005
Nadia Urbinati, Dissent Magazine, September 2005
Does the right of academics to decide what and how they teach constitute an abuse of academic freedom?
David Horowitz and Russell Jacoby, Frontpagemag.com , 28 July 2005
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Cambridge University Press, 17 February 2005
Is America still the World's Policeman?
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