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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Put citizens at the heart of the Union
Europe today is suffering an erosion of representative democracy, citizenship and solidarity, making emerging from the crisis that much harder. If the Union cannot encourage an upswing in citizen participation it will not survive in its current form, warns a Polish columnist.
Jacek Żakowski,
presseurop, 14 September 2012
A Right to Offend: Free Expression in the Twenty-first Century
A Right to Offend offers us a deeper understanding of the increasingly threatening environment in which free speech operates and is defended, as well as how it informs and is central to journalism practice and media freedom more generally. It is important reading for all those interested in freedom of expression in the twenty-first century.
Brian Winston, Bloomsbury Academic,
13 September 2012
The Shattered Remains of US Middle East Policy
The shocking attack on the US consulate in Benghazi late on Tuesday that left four Americans dead abruptly revealed the fragility of America’s position in the post “Arab Spring” Middle East
Karl Sharro,
Al-Akhbar, 13 September 2012
Time to come clean on planning
As the LGA feigns outrage at the Government’s accusation that town halls have blocked development, Claire Fox asks if the sector is being a little disingenuous
Claire Fox,
MJ, 13 September 2012
There’s more to politics than values
The Democrat convention was big on moral posturing about gay marriage and abortion, but short on serious strategy.
Helen Searls,
spiked, 13 September 2012
The Tragedy of the European Union and How to Resolve it
I have been a fervent supporter of the European Union as the embodiment of an open society—a voluntary association of equal states that surrendered part of their sovereignty for the common good. The euro crisis is now turning the European Union into something fundamentally different.
George Soros,
New York Review of Books, 12 September 2012
US politics: a punch-up between mythmakers
It’s ‘the economy, stupid’, James Carville famously advised Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992, and 20 years later, in 2012, it’s ‘the economy, stupid’ once again. Given the unemployment crisis and a growing wealth gap, candidates would have to be stupid not to focus on the slow, unsteady recovery. I just wish they wouldn’t focus on it almost exclusively.
Wendy Kaminer,
spiked, 10 September 2012
Greekonomics: The Euro crisis and why politicians don't get it
Politicians ignored or downplayed these in creating the Euro and indeed made the problem worse by watering down the controls that were in place. If the Euro is to survive in the long term, even greater political and fiscal integration and cooperation will be required.
Vicky Pryce, Biteback Publishing,
9 September 2012
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