Frank Furedi
Articles by Frank Furedi
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Global Issues
Fear and the city
- 16 October 2008
- 2 comments
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
Society
Thou shalt not hug
- 26 June 2008
- 35 comments
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
Ideas
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'
- 13 June 2005
- 1 comment
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
Books
Dangerous state
- 15 November 2004
Fear: the history of a political idea Corey Robin Oxford University Press, 316pp, £14.99 ISBN 0195157028
Ideas
The doubting self
- 10 February 2003
Respect: the formation of character in an age of inequality Richard Sennett Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 304pp, £20 ISBN 071399617X
Ideas
Macro to micro. Frank Furedi on the left-liberal surrender to "PC"
- 14 October 2002
The Politics of the Forked Tongue: authoritarian liberalism Aidan Rankin New European Publications, 161pp, £13.95 ISBN 1872410162
Politics
Culture wars hit the nursery
- 28 May 2001
Do young children really suffer from daycare? Only if society sends out the message that working mothers are bad mothers, argues Frank Furedi
Books
Plague studies
- 21 May 2001
In the Wake of the Plague: the Black Death and the world it made Norman Cantor Simon & Schuster, 480pp, £20 ISBN 0684858576
Books
The end of racism
- 23 April 2001
The Problem of Race in the 21st Century Thomas C Holt Harvard University Press, 160pp, £15.95 ISBN 0674004434
