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Furedi, prolific author and professor of sociology at the university of kent at canterbury, wants people to believe in themselves again and to govern accordinglyin short, to stop being afraid. Culture of fear or climate of fear is the concept that people may incite fear in the general public to achieve political or workplace goals through emotional bias. The compensation culture is poisoning our society telegraph. He is the author of fourteen books including why education isnt educating 2010, the politics of fear 2007, where have all the intellectuals. Snows two cultures lecture fifty years on frank furedi, roger kimball, raymond tallis, robert whelan civitas.
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