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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The Chinese Dream: A Society Under Construction
What if you built the whole mass of western europe in 20 years? What if 400 million farmers then moved in? What would it look like? How would it work? Would you be able to go to sleep at night? And if you did, would you dream of somewhere else …?
Neville Mars & Adrian Hornsby, 010 Publishers,
November 2008
Time to no platform 'no platform'
Not before time there’s a growing backlash against the NUS thought police.
Dennis Hayes & Richard Reynolds ,
The Free Society, 31 October 2008
There is no common America
As national divides grow, my kind of American is living in a state of hope and fear
Susan Jacoby,
The Times, 29 October 2008
How can we get Jamie et al to read?
Oliver is not alone among the famous in making rather a point of not only not reading books, but of never having read a book. Noel Gallagher boasted in a magazine interview that he was reading his first ever book at the age of 38 – it was a Dan Brown, but we all have to start somewhere.
Philip Hensher,
Independent, 27 October 2008
Keep clicking and you’ll be a snappy thinker
The internet is changing the way the human brain works...a new study concludes, the brains of those tested were markedly more active when carrying out internet searches than when reading books.
Brendan Montague and Helen Brooks,
The Sunday Times, 26 October 2008
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