Frank Furedi: List of Publications

This page compiles publications by Frank Furedi, Professor of sociology at the University of Kent, the intellectual guru of the Revolutionary Communist Tendency/Revolutionary Communist Party/Living Marxism and the LM network. The list includes materials originally published under Furedi's Party names Frank Richards and Linda Ryan.

Books and pamphlets

1980s

• Frank Furedi, "Soviet Union Demystified: A Materialist Analysis", Junius Publications., 1986
• Frank Furedi The Mau Mau War in Perspective, James Currey Publishers, 1989

1990s

• Frank Furedi, "Mythical Past - Elusive Future: History and Society in an Anxious Age", Pluto Press, 1991
• Frank Furedi, 'The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative, Pluto Press, 1994
• Frank Furedi, 'Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism, IB Tauris, 1994
• Frank Furedi, 'Population and Development: A Critical Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan, 1997
• Frank Furedi, "Culture of Fear: Risk-taking and the Morality of Low Expectation", Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi, 1997
• Frank Furedi, "The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race", Pluto Press, 1998
• Frank Furedi, 'Courting Mistrust: The Hidden Growth of a Culture of Litigation in Britain, Centre for Policy Studies, 1999

2000s

• Frank Furedi, "Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child", A Cappella Publishing, 2002
• Frank Furedi "Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation", Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi, 2002
• Frank Furedi, "Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age", Routledge, 2003
• Frank Furedi, "Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism", Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi, 2004
• Frank Furedi, 'The Politics of Fear. Beyond Left and Right, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005
• Frank Furedi, 'Invitation to Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007.
• Frank Furedi and Jennie Bristow Licensed to Hug: How child protection policies are poisoning the relationship between the generations and damaging the voluntary sector, London: Civitas, June 2008. 'This publication has been made possible by a grant from the Nigel Lord Vinson Charitable Trust'
• Frank Furedi, Roger Kimball, Raymond Tallis, Edited by Robert Whelan, From Two cultures to No culture, March 2009, London: Civitas.
• Frank Furedi, 'Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009.

Journal articles and Book chapters

2003

• Frank Furedi, ‘The Downsizing of Intellectual Authority’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 172-178, ISSN 1369-8230 print/1743-8772 online, Winter 2003

2004

• Frank Furedi, Reflections on the Medicalisation of Social Experience - A Reply to Phillip Hodson, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, Vol. 32, No. 3, August 2004

Popular press and web publications

2000

• Frank Furedi, It's Just a Failure of Nerve, New Statesman, 10 January 2000

2001

• Frank Furedi, A Review of ‘The Problem of Race in the 21st Century’ by Thomas C. Holt, New Statesman, 23 April 2001
• Frank Furedi, Making Sense of Parental Paranoia - an extract from Paranoid Parenting, The Guardian, 25 April 2001
• Frank Furedi, A Review of ‘In the Wake of the Plague: the Black Death and the World it Made’ by Norman Cantor, Simon & Schuster, New Statesman, 21 May 2001
• Frank Furedi, Culture Wars Hit the Nursery, New Statesman, 28 May 2001

2002

• Frank Furedi, Epidemic of Fear- We Were Scared to Death Long Before 11 September, Spiked, 15 March 2002
• Frank Furedi, A Review of ‘The Politics of the Forked Tongue: Authoritarian Liberalism’ by Aidan Rankin, New Statesman, 14 October 2002

2003

• Frank Furedi, A Review of ‘Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality’ by Richard Sennett, New Statesman, 10 February, 2003
• Frank Furedi, Assessment versus Intellect, The Guardian, 25 March 2003
• Frank Furedi, The Children Who Won’t Grow Up, Spiked 29 July 2003

2004

• Frank Furedi, Diana Syndrome - We Get The Conspiracies We Deserve, The Independent, 11 January 2004
• Frank Furedi, Sever the Ties That Bind Young Minds, Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 January 2004
• Frank Furedi, Don’t Underestimate Managers Ability to Treat You as an Idiot, Times Higher Education Supplement, 30 January 2004
• Frank Furedi, The Politics of the Lonely Crowd - Protest Movements Get Personal, Spiked, 9 March 2004
• Frank Furedi, They Expect Me to Make Life Easier, Times Higher Education Supplement, 30 April 2004
• Frank Furedi, Heroes of the Hour, New Scientist, 8 May 2004
• Frank Furedi, Call Yourself Cosmopolitan?, Times Higher Education Supplement, 28 May 2004
• Frank Furedi, The Degree is Loosing Its Meaning, The Daily Telegraph, 9 June 2004
• Frank Furedi, Punishing Parents, Spiked, 7 July 2004
• Frank Furedi, Why I Fear Lowering Entry Criteria for Foreign Students Could Destroy Universities, Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 July 2004
• Frank Furedi, The Sixties Myth, Spiked, 3 August 2004
• Frank Furedi, Plagiarism Stems From a Loss of Scholarly Ideals, Times Higher Education Supplement, 6 August 2004
• Frank Furedi, The Politics of Fear, Spiked, 28 October 2004
• Frank Furedi, Downsizing the Status of Science, The Scientist, 8 November 2004
• Frank Furedi, Our Goodwill Counts for Nothing on the List, 17 December 2004

2005

• Frank Furedi, A Blast from the Past, The Daily Telegraph, 15 January 2005
• Frank Furedi, Parliament Magazine, 31 January 2005
• Frank Furedi, Citizens Can’t be Made in Class, The Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2005
• Frank Furedi, You’d Better Make Some Noise While You Can, Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 February 2005
• Frank Furedi, The New Chief Inquisitor on Campus, Spiked, 16 February 2005
• Frank Furedi, Our Unhealthy Obsession with Sickness, Spiked, 23 March 2005
• Frank Furedi, Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 March 2005, Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 March 2005
• Frank Furedi, None of Them Knows What We’re Thinking, Spiked, 4 May 2005
• Frank Furedi, For Accreditation, See Indoctrination, Times Higher Education Supplement, 6 May 2005
• Frank Furedi, The Reawakening of European Democracy, Spiked, 31 May 2005
• Frank Furedi, From Europe to America: The Populist Moment Has Arrived, Spiked, 13 June 2005
• Frank Furedi, Saying the Public Doesn’t Understand the Ideals of the EU Expresses Profound Contempt, New Statesman, 13 June 2005
• Frank Furedi, A Degree is Now a Rite of Passage, Times Higher Education Supplement, 17 June 2005
• Frank Furedi, Behind the Executive Smoke Screen, Sunday Herald, 3 July 2005
• Frank Furedi, I Don’t Want to Meet the Parents, Times Higher Education Supplement, 29 July 2005
• Frank Furedi, Fear? We’re Revelling in It, The Times, 30 July 2005
• Frank Furedi, The Sum of Our Fears, The Sydney Morning Herald 6 August 2005
• Frank Furedi, When Fear Leaves Us Paralysed, The Guardian, 4 September 2005
• Frank Furedi, The Blame Game, BBC News Magazine, 6 September 2005
• Frank Furedi, Dissent? Not Today, Thank You, Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 September 2005
• Frank Furedi, Politics of Fear, Spiked, 15 September 2005
• Frank Furedi, Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid… No, Don’t, Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 September 2005
• Frank Furedi, The Market of Fear, Spiked, 26 September 2005
• Frank Furedi, The Rise of the Rising Sun, BBC History, September 2005
• Frank Furedi, Forget SARS, West Nile, Ebola and Avian Flu. The Real Epidemic is Fear, Macleans, 29 September 2005
• Frank Furedi, Why Do We Fear Freedom?, Spiked, 18 October 2005
• Frank Furedi, Bird Flu Prophets of Doom Spread Nothing But Needless Alarm, Daily Express, 18 October 2005
• Frank Furedi, Give Them a Little Textual Pleasure, Times Higher Education Supplement, 21 October 2005
• Frank Furedi, Welcome To This New Age of Deference, The Times, 25 October 2005
• Frank Furedi, French Lessons for Us All, Spiked, 8 November 2005
• Frank Furedi, On the Hunt for a Conspiracy Theory, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 November 2005
• Frank Furedi, The Age of Unreason, Spectator, 18 November 2005

2006

• Frank Furedi, Debased By This Soulless Culture, Daily Express, 10 January 2006
• Frank Furedi, The Curious Rise of Anti-Religious Hysteria, Spiked, 23 January, 2006
• Frank Furedi, The Holocaust Should Not Be for Sale, The Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2006
• Frank Furedi, In Pursuit of the Happy Bunnies, Times Higher Education Supplement, 27 January 2006
• Frank Furedi, Living in Fear, Lost for Words, The Age, 28 January 2006
• Frank Furedi, Who's Doing the Homework?, The Daily Telegraph, 8 February 2006
• Frank Furedi, Hollow Words: ‘Role model’, The First Post, 9 March 2006
• Frank Furedi, Hollow Words: ‘Holistic’, The First Post, 16 March 2006
• Frank Furedi, Hollow Words: ‘Transparent’, The First Post, 23 March 2006
• Frank Furedi, Humanist With a Stir in Many Camps, The Australian, 25 March 2006
• Frank Furedi, What's Wrong With Cheats, The Guardian, 28 March 2006
• Frank Furedi, Hollow Words: ‘Vision’, The First Post, 5 April 2006
• Frank Furedi, Confronting the New Misanthropy, Spiked, 18 April 2006
• Frank Furedi, Courtroom Therapy Makes a Mockery of Justice, Spiked, 24 April 2006
• Frank Furedi, Buck the Trend, Dare to be Nasty, Times Higher Education Supplement, 5 May 2006
• Frank Furedi, Politicians, Economists, Teachers… Why Are They So Desperate to Make Us Happy?, The Daily Telegraph, 7 May 2006
• Frank Furedi, Why the Politics of Happiness Makes Me Mad, Spiked, 23 May 2006
• Frank Furedi, It’s Time That We All ‘Interfered’ More, The Daily Telegraph, 4 June 2006
• Frank Furedi, Excitement No Money Can Buy, Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 June 2006
• Frank Furedi, We Need Teachers, Not Amateur Therapists, Spiked, 11 July 2006
• Frank Furedi, Grumbling Won't Change a Thing, Times Higher Education Supplement, 28 July 2006
• Frank Furedi, Maybe Self-Loving Does Make You Blind, Spiked, 4 August 2006
• Frank Furedi, Save Us From the Politics of Behaviour, Spiked, 11 September 2006
• Frank Furedi, A Roman Circus for Faux Celebrity, The Daily Telegraph, 24 September 2006
• Frank Furedi, Hungary: A ‘Hooligan Revolution’?, Spiked, 25 September 2006
• Frank Furedi, America Mourns New Gun Rampage, The First Post, 3 October 2006
• Frank Furedi, Generosity is Good for You, The First Post, 28 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, Who Can Pass the Spelling Test?, First published by An anthology marking the 30th anniversary of the Commission for Racial Equality, November 2006
• Frank Furedi, Why We’re All Too Chilled to Have Sex, The First Post, 2 November 2006
• Frank Furedi, Adults Behaving Badly, Spiked, 9 November 2006
• Frank Furedi, Do they know it’s Christmas?, Spiked, 13 December 2006

2007

• Frank Furedi, Time to Get Off the Treadmill, Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 March 2007
• Frank Furedi, What's Behind the 'New Anti-Semitism'?, Spiked, 6 March 2007
• Frank Furedi, Really Bad Ideas: Grumpiness, Spiked, 16 March 2007
• Frank Furedi, We Have Nothing to Fear but the Culture of Fear Itself, Spiked, 4 April 2007
• Frank Furedi, I Refuse to Jump Through Hoops, Times Higher Education Supplement, 13 April 2007
• Frank Furedi, Virginia Tech: A Massacre Without Meaning, Spiked, 18 April 2007
• Frank Furedi, Politics Without Sovereignty is not Politics at All, Spiked, 30 April 2007
• Frank Furedi, The Crusade Against the A-word, Spiked, 15 May 2007
• Frank Furedi, An Emotional Striptease, Spiked, 17 May 2007
• Frank Furedi, Really Bad Ideas: Phobias, Spiked, 20 May 2007
• Frank Furedi, Tick Yes to Raise the Standard, Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 May 2007
• Frank Furedi, Making a Balls-Up of Education, Spiked, 11 July 2007
• Frank Furedi, Hijacking Education, Spiked, 11 June 2007
• Frank Furedi, When All That’s Left is Despair, Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 June 2007
• Frank Furedi, Teenage Crisis? Blame Adults’ Celebrity Culture, The Daily Telegraph, 15 June 2007
• Frank Furedi, Really Bad Ideas: Population Control, Spiked, 18 June 2007
• Frank Furedi, Meet the Malthusians Manipulating the Fear of Terror, Spiked, 27 June 2007
• Frank Furedi, O Gore, Deliver Us from Evil, Spiked, 5 July 2007
• Frank Furedi, This Principle is not Negotiable, Times Higher Education Supplement, 6 July 2007
• Frank Furedi, Why Political Thought is Imprisoned in the Present, Spiked Review of Books, 20 July 2007
• Frank Furedi, Floods: God’s Punishment for Our Eco-Sins?, Spiked, 25 July 2007
• Frank Furedi, The Distorted Vision of Dearing, Times Higher Education Supplement, 10 August 2007
• Frank Furedi, The End of Europe?, Spiked, 13 August 2007
• Frank Furedi, Planet Relief: The Crusade Against Open Debate, Spiked, 6 September 2007
• Frank Furedi, Is There No Room Left for Reflection?, Times Higher Education Supplement, 14 September 2007
• Frank Furedi, A Tyranny of Experts, Spiked Review of Books, 21 September 2007
• Frank Furedi, Disturbing Youth Trend: Drinking to Get Drunk, The Daily Telegraph, 23 September 2007
• Frank Furedi, In Search of Eco-Salvation, Spiked, 27 September 2007
• Frank Furedi, The Mother of All Child-Rearing Battles, The Times, 9 October 2007
• Frank Furedi, And the Nobel Fear Prize Goes to…, Spiked, 15 October 2007
• Frank Furedi, Boundaries are There to be Leapt, Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 October 2007
• Frank Furedi, David Cameron’s Demographic Determinism, Spiked, 30 October 2007
• Frank Furedi, Are ‘Terrorist Groomers’ Warping Our Kids?, Spiked, 6 November 2007
• Frank Furedi, Finnish School Shooting: Self-Loathing Goes Global, Spiked, 8 November 2007
• Frank Furedi, From Finland to West London: A Culture of Death?, Spiked, 12 November 2007
• Frank Furedi, Is Israel the Organ-Grinder?, Spiked, 23 November 2007
• Frank Furedi, Really Bad Ideas: Censorship, Spiked, 26 November 2007
• Frank Furedi, Humanitarianism: The Antithesis of Humanism, Spiked, 30 November 2007
• Frank Furedi, The war on Terror is a Symmetry of Confusion, Spiked, 30 November 2007
• Frank Furedi, Golden Compass: The ‘God Wars’ as Child’s Play, 10 December 2007
• Frank Furedi, There’s No Added Value in Sales Talk, Times Higher Education Supplement, 14 December 2007
• Frank Furedi, From Singapore to Basra: British Militarism as Farce, Spiked, 17 December 2007
• Frank Furedi, In 2008, Let Us Challenge the Politics of Apocalypse, Spiked, 27 December 2007

2008

• Frank Furedi, Kenya is not the new Rwanda, Spiked, 8 January 2008
• Frank Furedi, Really Bad Ideas: The Tyranny of Science, Spiked, 15 January 2008
• Frank Furedi, Watch Without Mother, The Times, 17 January 2008
• Frank Furedi, If You Believe in Europe, Then Reject This Treaty, Spiked, 28 January 2008
• Frank Furedi, Beware the Child Catcher: The Doom and Groom Theory of Campus Terror, Times Higher Education Supplement, 31 January 2008
• Frank Furedi, Hiding Behind the Veil of Sharia Law, Spiked, 11 February 2008
• Frank Furedi, Can We Teach People to be Happy?, The Guardian, 19 February 2008
• Frank Furedi, Britain: An Island Without a Story, Spiked, 20 February 2008
• Frank Furedi, Challenge the ‘Culture of Death’ - Choose Life, Spiked, 25 February 2008
• Frank Furedi, The Greening of Capitalism, Spiked, 29 February 2008
• Frank Furedi, Fake Holocaust Memoirs: History as Therapy, Spiked, 5 March 2008
• Frank Furedi, The Seven Deadly Personality Disorders, Spiked, 12 March 2008
• Frank Furedi, Gordon Brown’s Register of Risks? Rip it Up, Spiked, 25 March 2008
• Frank Furedi, A Rumsfeldian Attack on Mothers-to-be, Spiked, 26 March 2008
• Frank Furedi, The Truth About Music, Spiked, 14 April 2008
• Frank Furedi, It’s a vxd Question: Why Your Lecture isn’t as Important as an SMS, Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 April 2008
• Frank Furedi, Flat-Pack Degrees, The Guardian, 22 April 2008
• Frank Furedi, My 1968, Spiked, 25 April 2008
• Frank Furedi, Letting the Truth of Music Speak for Itself, The Daily Telegraph, 26 April 2008
• Frank Furedi, Let’s Turn a New Page in the World of Reading, Spiked, 12 May 2008
• Frank Furedi, Crusaders in Search of a Crusade, Spiked, 14 May 2008
• Frank Furedi, Crewe By-Election: Farce War, Not Class War, Spiked, 21 May 2008
• Frank Furedi, iPod for Their Thoughts?, Times Higher Education Supplement, 29 May 2008
• Frank Furedi, The Rise and Rise of the New Malthusianism, Spiked, 30 May 2008
• Frank Furedi, The Bishop of Stafford: A 21st-Century Demonologist, Spiked, 2 June 2008
• Frank Furedi, Barack Obama and the Politicisation of Lifestyle, Spiked, 9 June 2008
• Frank Furedi, Now it’s Clear: The EU is an Alien Imposition in Europe, Spiked, 16 June 2008
• Frank Furedi, Bologna Looms, So Zagreb Marches. We Barely Notice, The Guardian, 17 June 2008
• Frank Furedi, After the Irish ‘No’ Vote: Pathologising Populism, Spiked, 23 June 2008
• Frank Furedi, Childcare: Child’s Play is Now a Minefield, The Daily Telegraph, 26 June 2008
• Frank Furedi, Now You Need a Licence to Interact With Children, Spiked, 26 June 2008
• Frank Furedi, Thou Shalt Not Hug, New Statesman, 26 June 2008
• Frank Furedi, The rise of China — threat or opportunity?, Spiked, 15 July 2008
• Frank Furedi, Media Obsession Risks Normalising Knife Crime, The First Post, 16 July 2008
• Frank Furedi, Photographing Children Becomes a Crime, Pajamas Media, 22 July 2008
• Frank Furedi, Ignore This Missive From Our Downbeat Doctors, Spiked, 28 July 2008
• Frank Furedi, A first-class fiasco, Times Higher Education, 31 July 2008
• Frank Furedi, ‘Children Are Being Used to Socialise Their Parents’, ABC Radio National, 4 August 2008
• Frank Furedi, Pursuit of Happiness is Personal, The Australian, 7 August 2008
• Frank Furedi, Spell it Like it is, Spiked, 12 August 2008
• Frank Furedi, Why the West Can’t Kick its Cold War habit, Spiked, 18 August 2008
• Frank Furedi, Dare to be Moral, Spiked Review of Books, 16 August 2008
• Frank Furedi, Phobias: in Greek, Monkie Magazine, 1 September 2008
• Frank Furedi, Hurricane Gustav and the Incitement to Panic, Spiked, 3 September 2008
• Frank Furedi, Moralisers on a PC Witch-Hunt, The Australian, 5 September 2008
• Frank Furedi, Turning Sarah Palin into a Twenty-First Century Witch, Spiked, 8 September 2008
• Frank Furedi, Whatever Happened to ‘Sticks and Stones’?, Pajamas Media, 13 September 2008
• Frank Furedi, Climate Crisis and the Idea of Humanity, Fora TV, 23 September 2008
• Frank Furedi, De Heksenjachtclub, De Verdieping Trouw, 27 September 2008
• Frank Furedi, This Week on The Forum, BBC World Service, 5 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, The ‘Credit Crunch’ and the Crisis of Meaning, Spiked, 6 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, Only Thing to Fear is Rhetoric, The Australian, 11 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, The State Won’t be the Saviour of the Economy, Spiked, 15 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, Fear and the City, New Statesman, 16 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, Britain’s War Against Competitive Sports, Pajamas Media, 19 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, How ‘Black September’ Will Redraw the Contours of Fear, Spiked, 21 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, Feeding a Fine Hunger, Times Higher Education Supplement, 30 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, Capitalism After the ‘Credit Crunch’: What is it Good For?, Spiked, 30 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, When politicians try to be parents, families lose out, The Independent, 31 October 2008
• Frank Furedi, When the Bucks Stop, Just Point the Finger, The Australian, 4 November 2008
• Frank Furedi, Obama and the Fall of ‘the Silent Majority’, Spiked, 5 November 2008
• Frank Furedi, Obama en de Teloorgang van de Zwijgende Meerderheid, De Verdieping Trouw, 8 November 2008
• Frank Furedi, Stop This Primitive Search for Scapegoats, Spiked, 11 November 2008
• Frank Furedi, The Battle for Truth, Fora TV, 14 November 2008
• Frank Furedi, We Keep Children Safe to Let Them Run Wild, The Daily Telegraph, 18 November 2008
• Frank Furedi, Why Moral Opportunists Are Exploiting This Tragedy, Spiked, 18 November 2008
• Frank Furedi, Nine Out of Ten Dogmas, Times Higher Education Supplement, 20 November 2008