Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
Choose a theme from the listing on the left to narrow your search, or view all readings.
Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century.
Ian Morris, Profile Books, 4 November 2010
How modern are our lives? Or are we still living the lives our ancestors lived?
Natalie Haynes, Profile Books, 4 November 2010
"The Hemlock Cup" gives Socrates the biography he deserves, setting him in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean that was his home, and dealing with him as he himself dealt with the world. Socrates was a soldier, a lover, a man of the people.
Bettany Hughes, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 7 October 2010
Why dense cities, nuclear power, transgenic crops, restored wildlands, radical science, and geoengineering are necessary
Stewart Brand, Atlantic Books, 1 October 2010
Instead of creating a new world, their actions really fostered a nation riddled with inequality, elitism and political corruption. "Jilted Generation" sets out how the next generation might succeed where this one failed.
Ed Howker & Shiv Malik, Icon Books Ltd, 2 September 2010
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