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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Playing the genocide card
The Politics of Genocide, an unflinching attack on Western meddling in foreign affairs, challenges the idea that external intervention can be a force for good.
Tara McCormack,
spiked, 27 August 2010
Is the motor car driving the world to destruction?
Two Billion Cars, like many modern green tracts, mixes demands for restraint with celebrations of techno-solutions to the problems we face. And as always, the restraint wins out.
Austin Williams,
spiked, 27 August 2010
Could anybody bend it like Beckham?
Maybe – if they practised for about 10,000 hours. An Olympic sportsman turned award-winning sports writer argues that the idea of natural talent is overrated.
Mick Hume,
spiked, 27 August 2010
Licensing crackdown on Scotland’s booze culture
Some of Scotland’s most popular nightlife haunts face a ban on any future pubs, clubs or off-sales under groundbreaking new plans to be in force by the end of the year.
Gerry Braiden,
Herald, 26 August 2010
Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?
Is it really possible to diagnose such a grown-up affliction in such a young child? And is diagnosing clinical depression in a preschooler a good idea, or are children that young too immature, too changeable, too temperamental to be laden with such a momentous label?
Pamela Paul,
New York Times, 25 August 2010
Football’s new age of fan power?
As the football season unfolds, will Manchester United’s fans topple its US owners and set a pattern for returning English clubs to their communities?
Sam Knight,
Prospect, 24 August 2010
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