by Frank Furedi | Feb 21, 2021 | Culture Wars, Education, Race
A scandal involving an obscure music journal confirms that the crusade against whiteness is out of control. In a world where, sooner or later, everything is racialised, it was only a matter of time before classical music became a target of the crusade against...
by Frank Furedi | Feb 21, 2021 | Politics and the Economy, Society and Civility
8 February 2021 Experts in the US are calling for the creation of a Reality Czar. They mean a Ministry of Truth. At first I couldn’t believe what I was reading. A writer for the New York Times was enthusiastically supporting a call made by ‘several experts’ around the...
by Frank Furedi | Feb 21, 2021 | Politics and the Economy
For four years, commentators have triviliased the horrors of Nazi Germany to score cheap political points. Nothing demonstrates more clearly the exhaustion of mainstream politics and its vocabulary than its constant reference to Adolf Hitler, the Nazis, the Holocaust...
by Frank Furedi | Feb 21, 2021 | Uncategorised
Thanks to the Enlightenment, and the development of scientific thought and technology, the sceptical mind has largely been at home during the modern era. But not anymore, it seems.This is because the freedom of speech on which scepticism depends has come under...
by Frank Furedi | Feb 21, 2021 | COVID-19, Risk and Fear
When governments the world over began imposing lockdowns in response to Covid-19 earlier this year, I was surprised by just how many people were comfortable with such measures. Nine months later, and little has changed. Millions, it seems, have learned to live in...