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Articles by Frank Furedi
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.
The power and the passion lost in procedure
The Australian,
12 November 2011
For some time now it has been evident that politics has become lost for words.
100% säkert att de inte företräder 99%
Voltaire,
7 November 2011
Nittionio procent är en enastående hög andel av befolkningen. När medlemmar av den globala ockupationsrörelsen hävdar att de är ”de 99 procenten” påstår de sig tala för så gott som alla människor.
Nanny state has no business muscling mums and dads out of the way
The Australian,
5 November 2011
Australia's Early Years Learning Framework is based on the assumption that government can never intercede early enough in children's lives to compensate for the incompetence of their parents.
Why church officials worship these protesters
spiked,
1 November 2011
No attempt to depict Occupy London as a Second Coming of angry Jesuses can disguise the fact that it remains a shallow moral gesture.
Anyone with an axe to grind can join the 99 per cent’s street performance
The Australian,
29 October 2011
As a sociologist I am always suspicious when I am told that a dimension of human experience is beyond comprehension or that it "defies simple characterisation".
It’s 100% certain that they don’t represent 99%
spiked,
27 October 2011
The occupiers’ claim to speak for ‘the 99%’ exposes how determined they are to avoid hard political debate in favour of cheap moralising.
Über Toleranz: „Es wird Zeit, den Liberalismus zurückzuerobern“
Novo Argumente,
26 October 2011
Brendan O’Neill im Gespräch mit Frank Furedi.
Minding our language breeds cynicism and cultural dishonesty
The Australian,
22 October 2011
One of the most disturbing developments in the cultural life of the West is the casual acceptance of the policing of language.
Science, politics make bad bedfellows
The Australian,
15 October 2011
One of the defining questions confronting public life is the relationship between science and government policy.
Can we tolerate intolerance?
Independent,
13 October 2011
Time and again interviewers ask me ‘can we tolerate intolerance’? Such questions continually signal the idea that tolerance is a freedom that can only be endowed to those who deserve it.
Too many wrongful claims to be on the right side of history
The Australian,
8 October 2011
History not yet written has emerged as a source of legitimacy for a bewildering variety of claims and causes.
Let’s stop kowtowing to the cult of transparency
spiked,
5 October 2011
The demand that every corner of officialdom be thrown open to public view has only made politics a more deceptive, less principled sphere.
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