by Frank Furedi | Nov 28, 2021 | Academic Freedom and Free Speech, Risk and Fear
The culture of safetyism on campus is becoming increasingly absurd There was a time when people who said ‘I feel unsafe’ were referring to a tangible threat. But not anymore. Take the students at Wolfson College, Cambridge, who have complained that they were made to...
by Frank Furedi | Nov 28, 2021 | Culture Wars, Education
Gender ideology is not about liberation – it is about coercion and control. Transgenderism has emerged as one of the most influential ideologies of our time. It is shaping people’s behaviour and thought in pursuit of a specific political objective – the erosion of the...
by Frank Furedi | Oct 31, 2021 | Culture Wars, Education
For almost two decades, I have been attempting to understand the origins and drivers of the culture war that has now engulfed the West. Many paint it as a continuation of the age-old conflict between left and right. But that is misleading. If anything, today’s...
by Frank Furedi | Oct 31, 2021 | Culture Wars, Education
Why am I not surprised to read the Welsh National Opera will run a series of lectures on Madame Butterfly to highlight issues of “imperialism and colonialism”? Because in recent years it has become increasingly fashionable to frame Western art and culture in a...
by Frank Furedi | Oct 31, 2021 | Culture Wars, Education
Saving education from the forces that wish to politicise it is one the most important cultural challenges of our time “My child has been told in a series of assemblies that she ‘has white privilege’, thatshe ‘subconsciously perpetuates it’, may even ‘consciously enjoy...