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Recent articles
Letting the truth of music speak for itself
Daily Telegraph,
26 April 2008
My 1968
spiked,
25 April 2008
As student radicals who believed ‘Anything Is Possible’, we rattled our elders in the heady year of 1968. But looking back, it seems the real driving force of Sixties radicalism was the crisis and cowardice of the elite itself.
Flat-pack degrees
The Guardian,
22 April 2008
Learn how to sell furniture - but not at university.
It’s a vxd question: why your lecture isn’t as important as an SMS
Times Higher Education,
16 April 2008
Academics' insecurity about their lecturing skills has hit new lows in an age of unrepentantly rude mobile phone users.
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New book: Invitation to Terror
Unlike in previous wars and conflicts, today our sense of terror precedes and extends beyond acts of terrorism. Official reaction is driven by a narrative of fear that invites us to regard terrorism as incomprehensible, senseless and beyond meaning. Such a response based on confusion authorises acts of speculation and fantasy as legitimate forms of threat assessment. This dramatisation of security transmits a sense of helplessness that inadvertently offers society's enemies an invitation to be terrorised. Furedi believes that we lack an intellectual framework for confronting the fear of terrorism.
The language we use betrays confusion about the threat we face and therefore undermines our capacity to engage with it. Those who pose the question of 'Why do they hate us?' are often unsure of who 'they' are. Even more unsettling is the realisation that many of us are less than certain about who 'we' are. In this startling and original book Frank Furedi engages with some of the most fundamental questions confronting society today. Invitation to Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown is published in October 2007 by Continuum. Buy this book from Amazon (UK). Read Conor Gearty's review in the Times Higher Education Supplement.
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The truth about music
spiked,
14 April 2008
There is no ‘truer truth’ than that which comes through music, said Robert Browning. Which makes today’s transformation of music into a tool of social policy all the more tragic.
A Rumsfeldian attack on mothers-to-be
spiked,
26 March 2008
The new warning that pregnant women should avoid booze is not evidence-based – rather it springs from the relentless moralisation of pregnancy.
The seven deadly personality disorders
spiked,
12 March 2008
With lust relabelled ‘sex addiction’ and gluttony turned into an ‘eating disorder’, it’s no wonder Catholics are unsure about the seven deadly sins.
Fake Holocaust memoirs: history as therapy
spiked,
5 March 2008
In an era when suffering is celebrated and we all must ‘Believe the Victim’, is it any wonder people make up wild stories about wolves and Nazis?
The greening of capitalism
spiked,
29 February 2008
A striking new essay exposes the pretensions of ethical consumers and explores the emergence of a seemingly green economy. But in claiming that canny capitalists have ‘manufactured scarcity’, it risks reading history backwards.
Challenge the ‘culture of death’ - choose life
spiked,
25 February 2008
Bridgend: When newborns are seen as ‘polluters’ and death is described as ‘dignified’, it’s not surprising some youth don’t value their lives.
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Other publications by Frank Furedi
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