Frank Furedi | The Neo-Marxist Takeover of Academia

Frank Furedi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. He is author of 17 books including Paranoid Parenting, Culture of Fear and Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right. Frank regularly comments on radio and TV in the UK, and has been interviewed by the media in Australia, Canada, the United States, Poland, Holland, Belgium and Germany.

He and John discuss the current state of our universities, increasing restraints on freedom of speech, identity politics and victimhood culture.
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00:00 Intro
00:28 Introducing Frank Furedi.
1:00 - Socialising our children and the critical nature of public debate.
2:17 - The state is co-parenting our children.
3:26 - The deconstruction of families.
4:26 - What is your view on the trends of the nanny state and the deconstruction of families playing out in Australia?
8:12 - The elites aren’t standing up for freedom of speech and foundational freedoms.
10:39 - Are universities the right group to socialise our youths and how well is this working?
14:20 - Are academics afraid to speak up?
15:31 - Are university courses now censoring information and remaining mainstream?
16:43 - What mechanisms are used to neuter debate and avoid offense?
19:01 - What does this censoring say about how we are raising our youths?
21:23 - Identity politics used to prompt people to fight against aristocracy, now those people are making their own aristocratic class in the name of identity politics.
24:10 - Has identity politics triumphed over real belief? (Particularly in terms of marriage)
27:21 - Will a lack of freedom of speech allow us to have good public policy?
29:17 - Identity politics has blocked debate and freedom of speech.
32:40 - The importance of religious freedom and freedom of conscience.
35:10 - Major reformations of human rights from religion rather than enlightenment.
36:17 - How do we recast our political labels?
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