Frank Furedi, a British emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, prolific author and established social commentator, has mapped the history of what we now call identity politics in his latest book. In it he traces the century long evolution of theory and behaviour that in some ways is also a recycling of perennial issues in […]
Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at Kent University, issues a timely warning about the increasing censorship of free speech in the public sphere, as well as self-censorship, ‘which is in many ways more insidious than the formal policing of language’; this is a growing problem on the internet, but also on university campuses, where […]