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Recent articles
Music for the masses: could it work here?
spiked,
28 January 2010
It would be brilliant if El Sistema, Venezuela’s social movement for classical music education, came to Britain. But there are obstacles.
Hulp is geen zaak voor angsthazen
NRC Handelsblad,
26 January 2010
Reddingswerkers en hulporganisaties bekommeren zich te veel om de eigen veiligheid.
War Gott Grün?
Die Furche Feuilleton,
22 January 2010
Beim Versuch, mithilfe der Religion die Menschen zu einem umweltfreundlichen Verhalten zu zwingen, degradieren grüne Denker sowohl den Glauben als auch die Wissenschaft. Von Frank Furedi.
To rescue Haitians, we need to take risks
spiked,
18 January 2010
The slow delivery of aid to Haitians suggests that even the noble mission of saving lives has been subordinated to the dictates of risk-aversion.
There’s still hope for the good guys
The Australian,
16 January 2010
In a cultural landscape dominated by simplistic nihilism, Cormac McCarthy's tale of survival stands apart.
It’s 15 below zero as weathermen go witch-hunting
The Australian,
13 January 2010
It is snowing big time in my town in Kent. The family sits in front of the television to discover whether there is more of the white stuff to come. However, instead of an informative weather forecast we are offered a political broadcast.
The Road: there’s more to life than biological survival
spiked,
7 January 2010
Those who welcome the film version of The Road as eco-propaganda for the masses have missed the point of McCarthy’s literary masterpiece.
Een dieet van paniekverhalen: Hoe onze kinderen eco-verklikkers worden
De Groene Amsterdammer,
6 January 2010
Klimaatactivisten misbruiken de angst van kinderen steeds vaker om het gedrag van volwassenen te veranderen.
Rethinking education – the new crisis of adult authority in the classroom
Battle of Ideas,
22 December 2009
Audio recording of Frank Furedi's opening lecture at the Battle of Ideas on 31 October 2009.
Much ado about nothing in Denmark
The Australian,
21 December 2009
I have a few hours to kill in Copenhagen before I catch a train to Sweden. Maybe it is the sculptures of emaciated humans outside the conference venue but as I walk around I cannot avoid the feeling that I am in the middle of a medieval passion play.
Conversational gambit
Times Higher Education,
17 December 2009
'High-quality feedback' is an ongoing, interactive process. By Frank Furedi.
Turning children into Orwellian eco-spies
spiked,
15 December 2009
Frank Furedi recalls being educated through fear in Stalinist Hungary, and is disturbed that the same tactics are now used by environmentalists.
Treating human beings as little more than carbon
spiked,
7 December 2009
As the Copenhagen summit starts, the rise of eco-Malthusianism shows the anti-human, future-fearing essence of climate-change alarmism.
Anything ‘sustainable’ is not worth having
spiked,
1 December 2009
A challenge to the cult of sustainability and restraint that is growing in response to the economic recession.
We don’t need another conspiracy theory
spiked,
24 November 2009
The sceptics poring over those ‘Climategate’ emails are indulging in easy conspiracy-mongering rather than having a tough, grown-up debate.
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