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| Wednesday 22 June 2011 |
Is Ryan Giggs a Lothario or a sick man in need of help?
The notion that people who sleep around are sex addicts, powerless before lust, screws over the Enlightenment idea of human reason.
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| Thursday 9 June 2011 |
‘Western parents need to chill out about their kids’
The author of Paranoid Parenting says that far from needing a stricter ‘Asian’ approach, Western parenting is already way too intensive.
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| Thursday 2 June 2011 |
Nuclear vs climate change: the clash of the alarmists
Germany’s hysterical decision to shut down all its nuclear power plants exposes the dangers of competitive fearmongering.
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| Monday 23 May 2011 |
The new buzzword in Brussels: ‘Crisis’
The EU is beset with problems, but it is so cut off from the electorate that it lacks the popular legitimacy to solve them.
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| Monday 16 May 2011 |
How EU officials simply forgot about Christmas
The European oligarchy’s failure to include Christmas in a diary for schoolkids sums up their separation from the demos.
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| Wednesday 11 May 2011 |
Hating Tesco: a passion of both the PC and the BNP
Trendy leftists and far-right activists disagree on many things, but they have one conviction in common: supermarkets are evil.
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| Tuesday 3 May 2011 |
The democratic case against alternative voting
There’s way too much opportunism in the debate on AV, says Frank Furedi: here are the real reasons you should say ‘No’ on Thursday.
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| Tuesday 26 April 2011 |
The culture war behind the Will’n’Kate debate
The wedding has exposed big fault lines within the British elite, with defensive monarchists on one side and snobbish cynics on the other.
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| Monday 18 April 2011 |
Up the Yid Army!
The campaign to cleanse Britain’s football terraces of the Y-word is a patronising assault on Tottenham Hotspur fans’ pride and identity.
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| Thursday 24 March 2011 |
Japan needs our solidarity, not a blame game
The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback.
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| Monday 14 March 2011 |
Japan: a catastrophe, not a disaster movie
Forget the Hollywood-style finger-pointing about human ‘arrogance’ and ‘powerlessness’ – we can overcome and learn from the worst disasters.
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| Wednesday 9 March 2011 |
Recasting betrayal as a democratic virtue
Kicking off a new series of essays, Frank Furedi says the deification of leakers and whistleblowers is bad for democracy, debate and private life.
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| Monday 28 February 2011 |
Lady Gaga’s crazy anthem to biological determinism
The pop megastar’s pro-gay hit ‘Born This Way’ confirms that even this manic queen of reinvention buys into modern notions of fate.
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| Monday 21 February 2011 |
Only intellectual cowards demand ‘gross intolerance’
The modern men of science who want to silence quacks are ironically on the same side as pre-Enlightenment religious dogmatists.
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| Monday 7 February 2011 |
Don’t blame tolerance for this multicultural mess
David Cameron is right to slam multiculturalism, but wrong to blame tolerance for fostering today’s lily-livered non-judgmentalism.
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| Wednesday 2 February 2011 |
This yearning for freedom will not lead to theocracy
The fear that the Egyptian uprising will create ‘another Iran’ reveals the extent to which 1979 still haunts the Western imagination.
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| Thursday 20 January 2011 |
Defending moral autonomy against an army of nudgers
ESSAY: Frank Furedi slams the ‘choice architects’ who bypass public debate in their zealous effort to reshape our minds and bodies.
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| Friday 14 January 2011 |
A therapeutic perversion of the ideal of tolerance
Making people feel good about their lifestyle choices is not what Enlightenment thinkers had in mind when they argued for moral autonomy.
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| Tuesday 11 January 2011 |
The EU vs Hungary: the clash of the censors
EU officials are only concerned about Hungary’s new media law because it is explicitly moralistic. Brussels prefers technocratic censorship.
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| Wednesday 29 December 2010 |
The truth about tolerance
Frank Furedi, author of the forthcoming On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence, takes to task Tariq Ramadan, who wants to bury the Enlightenment virtue of toleration and replace it with recognition.
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