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 Ownership State
Read the report that started the mutualism debate
Phillip Blond,
ResPublica, October 2009
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Advantage Google
Three hundred years ago, Daniel Defoe offered a memorable image for the relationship between authors and their work: “A Book is the Author’s Property, ’tis the Child of his Inventions, the Brat of his Brain.”
Lewis Hyde,
New York Times, 1 October 2009
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Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
Crude World offers a passionate look at some of the most awful places in the world – the violent, repressive and polluted countries where oil is extracted. Peter Maass follows the journey of oil and shows how the substance sullies so much of what it touches, poisoning land and rivers, promoting political bloodshed and creating corruption on a staggering scale.
Peter Mass, Allen Lane,
1 October 2009
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The Xbox factor: gaming's role in future assessment
In a proposal that will be music to many students' ears, a vice-chancellor has suggested that computer games should play a greater role in assessment.
Melanie Newman,
Times Higher Education, 1 October 2009
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A bar too far? Drunkenness off duty won't do
It may not constitute a grave threat to academic freedom, but the freedom of academics to get drunk in their own time is being curtailed at Cardiff University.A new policy that warns against drunken behaviour out of hours has led to complaints that managers are trying to impose a teetotal lifestyle on staff.
Melanie Newman,
Times Higher Education, 1 October 2009
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Get out and join the city life
US universities are part of the fabric of their communities. Robin Hambleton says UK institutions should emulate them
Robin Hambleton,
Times Higher Education, 1 October 2009
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Plugged In
Claire Fox, director of the Institute of Ideas and regular contributor to
The MJ, succeeded in fulfilling the brief to do her usual thing and ‘stir it up’ when she spoke at APSE’s recent annual conference in Cardiff.
Paul O'Brien,
LocalGov, October 2009
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Not all migrants are scruffy dirty victims
Yes, the residents of the Calais ‘jungle’ have been treated badly, but the no borders case requires a defence of
everyone’s right to move.
Nathalie Rothschild,
spiked, 1 October 2009
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