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academic freedom and free speech
Hungary challenges EU’s moral status quo
The Australian,
15 January 2011
On January 1, the rotating presidency of the European Union was assumed by Hungary. Paradoxically, on the same day the Hungarian government introduced a series of illiberal laws to extend state control of the media.
The EU vs Hungary: the clash of the censors
spiked,
11 January 2011
EU officials are only concerned about Hungary’s new media law because it is explicitly moralistic. Brussels prefers technocratic censorship.
The truth about tolerance
spiked,
31 December 2010
Frank Furedi, author of the forthcoming On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence, takes to task Tariq Ramadan, who wants to bury the Enlightenment virtue of toleration and replace it with recognition.
What does it mean to be a liberal today?
Independent,
30 November 2010
Frank Furedi talks to Sarah Boyes.
Why scepticism is still ‘the highest of duties’
spiked,
26 April 2010
Scepticism is widely denounced as a poison and a disease today, just as it was in the Dark Ages. We urgently need to rescue its reputation.
People should not be punished for their beliefs
spiked,
23 June 2009
The proposal to ban British National Party members from teaching in schools is a far bigger threat to democracy than the BNP itself.
Whatever Happened to ‘Sticks and Stones’?
Pajamas Media,
13 September 2008
The freedom to offend is a very small price we pay for upholding a democratic way of life.
Really Bad Ideas: Censorship
spiked,
26 November 2007
The shrill opposition to the Oxford Union debate involving Nick Griffin and David Irving is part of today’s moral rehabilitation of censorship.
Planet Relief: the crusade against open debate
spiked,
6 September 2007
The hysterical reaction to the BBC’s decision to scrap its climate change special exposes green crusaders’ antipathy to discussion and dissent.
This principle is not negotiable
Times Higher Education Supplement,
6 July 2007
If monitoring Muslim groups threatens free speech, then surely boycotting Israeli academics does too.
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