Frank Furedi

Sociologist, commentator and author of Culture of Fear, Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and On Tolerance: In Defence of Moral Independence.
 
       
 

The power and the passion lost in procedure
The Australian, 12 November 2011
For some time now it has been evident that politics has become lost for words.

100% säkert att de inte företräder 99%
Voltaire, 7 November 2011
Nittionio procent är en enastående hög andel av befolkningen. När medlemmar av den globala ockupationsrörelsen hävdar att de är ”de 99 procenten” påstår de sig tala för så gott som alla människor.

Nanny state has no business muscling mums and dads out of the way
The Australian, 5 November 2011
Australia's Early Years Learning Framework is based on the assumption that government can never intercede early enough in children's lives to compensate for the incompetence of their parents.

Why church officials worship these protesters
spiked, 1 November 2011
No attempt to depict Occupy London as a Second Coming of angry Jesuses can disguise the fact that it remains a shallow moral gesture.

Anyone with an axe to grind can join the 99 per cent’s street performance
The Australian, 29 October 2011
As a sociologist I am always suspicious when I am told that a dimension of human experience is beyond comprehension or that it "defies simple characterisation".

It’s 100% certain that they don’t represent 99%
spiked, 27 October 2011
The occupiers’ claim to speak for ‘the 99%’ exposes how determined they are to avoid hard political debate in favour of cheap moralising.

Über Toleranz: „Es wird Zeit, den Liberalismus zurückzuerobern“
Novo Argumente, 26 October 2011
Brendan O’Neill im Gespräch mit Frank Furedi.

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.

Science, politics make bad bedfellows
The Australian, 15 October 2011
One of the defining questions confronting public life is the relationship between science and government policy.

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.

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