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Review: Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Times Higher Education,
2 February 2012
Informal links keep society strong but, Frank Furedi finds, we don't make them like we used to.
How atheism became a religion in all but name
spiked,
1 February 2012
It was only a matter of time before someone proposed an ‘atheist temple’, given the religious-like zealotry and dogma of the New Atheists.
Parents must be free to chastise and also to smack
Daily Express,
31 January 2012
Tottenham MP David Lammy should be commended for stating that parents need to have the right to smack their children in order to restrain them from anti-social behaviour.
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.
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.
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