The Battle of Ideas 2008 was a two-day festival of high-level, thought-provoking debate organised by the Academy of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art.
The Chinese Dream: A Society Under Construction, Neville Mars & Adrian Hornsby
Religion remains fundamental to US politics, Susan Jacoby
Time to no platform 'no platform', Dennis Hayes & Richard Reynolds
Should schools be engines of social mobility?, Sally Millard
Remaking citizens for the ‘Big Society’, Kathryn Ecclestone
In drug policy, pragmatism is the only moral approach, Roger Howard & Leo Barasi
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"For one weekend in the year, in the centre of London, it's as if ideas matter, it's as if the world really can be made a better place through the free and energetic exercise of reason."
Austen Ivereigh, Catholic commentator