Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at University of Kent, and author of Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear.
 
       
 

environment

Floods: God’s punishment for our eco-sins?
spiked, 25 July 2007
Even secular commentators seem to have welcomed the floods in England as a sign of divine displeasure with man’s arrogant ways.

O Gore, deliver us from evil
spiked, 5 July 2007
Al Gore, whose Live Earth concerts rock the planet this weekend, has styled himself as a superstar prophet bringing salvation to mankind.

Really Bad Ideas: Population control
spiked, 18 June 2007
Alongside today’s respect for human life there is the increasingly popular idea that there is too much human life around, and that it is killing the planet.

Confronting the New Misanthropy
spiked, 18 April 2006
The big question today is not whether humans will survive the twenty-first century, but whether our faith in humanity will survive it

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