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Fear and the city

Frank Furedi — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:37:35 GMT

These are alarming times, but what are we all most afraid of? From London to Cairo to Beijing, a new geography of global anxiety is emerging

Thou shalt not hug

Frank Furedi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:24:21 GMT

British society no longer trusts grown-ups to interact with children. In a controversial new report, Frank Furedi and Jennie Bristow argue that the culture of "vetting" adults is damaging relationships between the generations

NS Essay - 'To say or imply that the public is too stupid to grasp the high-minded and sophisticated ideals of the advocates of the EU is to express a profound sense of contempt towards ordinary people'

Frank Furedi — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:00:00 GMT

Europe's political classes, particularly on the left, are bending over backwards to claim that no doesn't really mean no. This is an insult to democracy

Dangerous state

Frank Furedi — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:00:00 GMT

Fear: the history of a political idea Corey Robin Oxford University Press, 316pp, �14.99 ISBN 0195157028

The doubting self

Frank Furedi — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Respect: the formation of character in an age of inequality Richard Sennett Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 304pp, �20 ISBN 071399617X

Macro to micro. Frank Furedi on the left-liberal surrender to "PC"

Frank Furedi — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:00:00 GMT

The Politics of the Forked Tongue: authoritarian liberalism Aidan Rankin New European Publications, 161pp, �13.95 ISBN 1872410162

Culture wars hit the nursery

Frank Furedi — Mon, 28 May 2001 12:00:00 GMT

Do young children really suffer from daycare? Only if society sends out the message that working mothers are bad mothers, argues Frank Furedi

Plague studies

Frank Furedi — Mon, 21 May 2001 12:00:00 GMT

In the Wake of the Plague: the Black Death and the world it made Norman Cantor Simon & Schuster, 480pp, �20 ISBN 0684858576

The end of racism

Frank Furedi — Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:00:00 GMT

The Problem of Race in the 21st Century Thomas C Holt Harvard University Press, 160pp, �15.95 ISBN 0674004434