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.

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Frank launched his new book, Invitation to Terror, at the Battle of Ideas festival in London in October 2007. Watch the session on FORA.tv.

risk and fear

The market in fear
spiked, 26 September 2005
Politics has become a contest between different brands of doom-mongering

Be afraid, be very afraid… no, don’t
Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 September 2005
Academics are helping to spread scare stories in their bid to exert influence and gain funds from states with fear-based agenda

When fear leaves us paralysed
The Observer, 4 September 2005
Apocalyptic visions keep us in a permanent state of anxiety. But we are not as powerless as we think

Fear? We’re revelling in it
The Times, 30 July 2005
In the face of terror, altruism, black humour and sex are the therapies that will see us through

The politics of fear
spiked, 28 October 2004

Epidemic of Fear
spiked, 15 March 2002
We were scared to death long before 11 September.

It’s just a failure of nerve
New Statesman, 10 January 2000

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