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Recent articles
Message to EU meddlers: Hands off Hungary!
spiked,
23 January 2012
Brussels’ culture war against the ‘white savages’ of Hungary is destroying democracy and helping to boost reactionary right-wingers.
Racism no longer an objective act of oppression but an inherently subjective accusation
The Australian,
21 January 2012
The promotion of the idea that racism is prevalent and that its unwitting variant is even more widespread prompts people to interpret each other's behaviour and language through the prism of race.
Social Inclusion Unit? Leave me out
The Australian,
14 January 2012
Far from being a desirable objective, social inclusion is an unusually vapid idea.
Eurokrise: Wohin mit der lästigen Demokratie?
Novo Argumente,
11 January 2012
In den vergangenen Monaten ist deutlich geworden, dass die Europäische Union nicht bloß unter einem Demokratiedefizit leidet.
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Out in August 2011:
On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence
Outwardly, we live in an era that appears more open-minded, non-judgemental and tolerant than in any time in human history. The very term ‘intolerant’ invokes moral condemnation. We are constantly reminded to understand the importance of respecting different cultures and diversities.
In this new book, Frank Furedi argues that despite the apparent democratisation of public life, society is dominated by a culture that not only tolerates but often encourages intolerance. Often the intolerance is directed at people who refuse to accept the conventional wisdom and who are stigmatised as ‘deniers’. Frequently intolerance comes into its own in clashes over cultural values and lifestyles. People are condemned for the food they eat, how they parent, and for wearing religious symbols in public.
On Tolerance teases out the motives and drivers of contemporary intolerance, and argues that the willingness to make judgements and to tolerate dissent is the essential precondition for freedom and moral independence.
Order On Tolerance from Amazon (UK)
Discussion of On Tolerance in the media
Rob White: Planet Intolerance
The Global Warming Policy Foundation,
8 November 2011
Open Lecture - Professor Frank Furedi on tolerance
University of Kent,
2 November 2011
FiveBooks Interviews: Claire Fox on freedom of speech
The Browser,
18 October 2011
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Declaring war against bluster and rhetoric
spiked,
9 January 2012
In 2012, Frank Furedi will be writing a monthly column on the hollow words and thoughts of twenty-first-century political life. This month, he reclaims the word ‘conversation’.
Attitudes towards protesters show depth of our moral vacuity
The Australian,
31 December 2011
All that is asked of potential moral role models today is that they complain, voice their emotion and make a public statement.
The year when the word ‘progressive’ lost all its meaning
spiked,
29 December 2011
After the events of 2011, radical humanists will have to fight hard to reclaim the p-word.
Forget Scrooge, it’s the scaremongers who ruin Christmas
The Australian,
24 December 2011
One of the most unattractive features of our culture of fear is that it encourages pressure groups to make us scared about people we love and experiences that we cherish.
Exposed: the snobbery and intolerance of the EU elite
spiked,
14 December 2011
The chattering classes’ hysterical reaction to David Cameron’s veto of a revised Lisbon Treaty reveals the dark heart of pro-EU sentiment.
Lecture: Leadership, liberty and the crisis of authority
Centre for Independent Studies,
13 December 2011
Frank Furedi gives the 2011 John Bonython Lecture to the Centre for Independent Studies.
A vision of art for art’s sake, not for measuring individual political agendas
The Australian,
9 December 2011
In the real world art does not in the least resemble the role of a community pain relief assigned to it by officialdom.
Do good, but do it our way
The Australian,
3 December 2011
Volunteering has been turned into an institution that is promoted on the grounds of its benefits for the volunteer and for the community, and its meaning has been thoroughly transformed.
How the EU oligarchy has downsized democracy
spiked,
29 November 2011
ESSAY: So-called liberals and leftists have become obsessed with constructing a political firewall between the elite and the multitude.
Instead of drugs, children need a good dose of parenting
The Australian,
26 November 2011
As far as the American Academy of Pediatrics is concerned you can never drug children early enough.
Leadership, liberty and the crisis of authority
The Punch,
16 November 2011
Leadership has become one of the central questions of our time. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the demand for strong authoritative leadership has been palpable.
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