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.

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Liberty & Law

Myspace and control
On Myspace, interaction between users is effectively eliminating the lines between personal communication and advertising
Fred Scharmen, sevenisfive.net, 30 April 2006

No surrender to UEFA bureaucrats
What is UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body based in Nyon, Switzerland, doing debating the content of Rangers FC's chants?
Dolan Cummings, spiked, 25 April 2006

The Right to Ridicule
‘No one's religious convictions can be thought to trump the freedom that makes democracy possible’
Ronald Dworkin, New York Review of Books, 22 March 2006

Taking offence is the best form of attack
I know this isn't all about me, but the row about those Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed has made my life a misery.
Martin Rowson, New Humanist, 2 March 2006

School vetting controls tightened
News report outlining the vetting bill (from Spring last year)
staff writer, BBC News, 1 March 2006

School vetting controls tightened
News report outlining the bill from spring last year
staff writer, BBC, 1 March 2006

Those cartoons: a caricatured argument
All of this heat about the Danish cartoons is shedding no light on the important questions of free speech, genuine tolerance, multiculturalism and society today
Mick Hume, spiked, 6 February 2006

Political (In)Justice: Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina

Why do attempts by authoritarian regimes to legalize their political repression differ so dramatically? Why do some dispense with the law altogether, while others scrupulously modify constitutions, pass new laws, and organize political trials?

Anthony W. Pereira, University of Pittsburgh Press, 31 October 2005


The Politics of Immigration and Membership

Transnational migration produces blatant contradictions between universal human rights and the extant set of naturalization, immigration, refugee, and asylum policies

Nadia Urbinati, Dissent Magazine, September 2005


Academic freedom: David Horowitz vs Russell Jacoby
Does the right of academics to decide what and how they teach constitute an abuse of academic freedom?
David Horowitz and Russell Jacoby, Frontpagemag.com , 28 July 2005


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