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academic freedom and free speech
Satisfaction and its discontents
Times Higher Education,
8 March 2012
The National Student Survey puts pressure on lecturers to provide 'enhanced' experiences. But, argues Frank Furedi, the results do not measure educational quality and the process infantilises students and corrodes academic integrity.
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.
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.
‘It is time that we reclaimed liberalism’
spiked,
23 September 2011
Frank Furedi talks to Brendan O’Neill about his new book On Tolerance and why he wants to halt and reverse the warping of the liberal outlook.
A professional masquerade
Times Higher Education,
1 September 2011
Demands that scholars like David Starkey not speak outside their subject threaten intellectual freedom.
Up the Yid Army!
spiked,
18 April 2011
The campaign to cleanse Britain’s football terraces of the Y-word is a patronising assault on Tottenham Hotspur fans’ pride and identity.
On tolerance, the ethos of intolerance, and intellectual courage
FEDCAN blog,
7 April 2011
Frank Furedi contributes to the series on ‘interculturalism and pluralism’, on the blog of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Scientists.
Our job is to judge
Times Higher Education,
17 March 2011
Academics without the freedom to exercise judgement are not true academics. Frank Furedi explains why scholars must resist the rise of proceduralism.
Recasting betrayal as a democratic virtue
spiked,
9 March 2011
Kicking off a new series of essays, Frank Furedi says the deification of leakers and whistleblowers is bad for democracy, debate and private life.
Only intellectual cowards demand ‘gross intolerance’
spiked,
21 February 2011
The modern men of science who want to silence quacks are ironically on the same side as pre-Enlightenment religious dogmatists.
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