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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World poverty guru ‘fails’ to spread wealth
“Microcredit is not a transformational panacea that is going to lift people out of poverty,” said Dean Karlan, a Yale economics professor who studied the phenomenon in the Philippines. “There might be little pockets of people who are made better off, but the average effect is weak, if not non-existent.”
Tony Allen-Mills,
Sunday Times, 4 October 2009
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Waving the white flag for history risks a self-fulfilling prophecy
Recent debates on the teaching of history imply a subject under attack and on the defensive with claims that it is in danger of being merged into a kind of humanities "blancmange". History seems to be disappearing as a separate subject as children's needs and diverse identities are emphasised instead.
Mark Taylor,
TES, 2 October 2009
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Europe’s centre-left suffers in the squeezed middle
The right is stealing leftist clothes: an anti-elitist populism in Italy; a co-option of admired figures of the left into government in France; and in Britain, resurgent Tories rail against Labour’s 'top down' and 'bureaucratic' reforms.
John Lloyd,
Financial Times, 2 October 2009
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Problems await Obama after Chicago loss
Even before Chicago was eliminated, critics had lampooned Barack Obama’s trip to Copenhagen as a misplaced exercise in “verbal gymnastics”. But Friday’s embarrassing first-round elimination is likely to cause Mr Obama more problems back home.
Edward Luce,
Financial Times, 2 October 2009
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Book of the Week: The Idea of Justice
Many years ago, the philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote a famous paper called "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?". Amartya Sen has written a book that has something to do with a rather similar question: what is it like to be a human being?
Alex Danchev,
Times Higher Education, 1 October 2009
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'History goes on; human beings don't change very much'
John Gray says he is no despairing grump, just trying to help us by injecting realism into political thinking. To that end, he tells Matthew Reisz, his essays do not skirt the nasty, shabby sides of life
Matthew Reisz,
Times Higher Education, 1 October 2009
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The revelations over MPs' expenses that began in May 2009 ranged from petty thieving to outright fraud and sparked a crisis in confidence unprecedented in modern times. This was a 21st-century Peasants' Revolt - an uprising of the people against the political class.
