Frank Furedi, prolific author and Kent-based sociologist, will be familiar to readers of spiked for his spear-throwing at sacred cows. Not content with having waged a 20-year war against risk-aversion and the culture of fear, and having recently taken on the supernannies of the parenting industry and the dumbers-down of academic life, in his new book he sets out to reclaim the Enlightenment ideal of tolerance from todayâ??s PC, value-lite elite.
