 | Jane is a Battle of Ideas Committee member and convenor of the Academy of Ideas Parents Forum. This was founded in October 2006 and looks at why the family has become such a focus in contemporary society and what consequences that has. Jane wrote the foreword to Standing Up to Supernanny which was shaped by the Parenting Strand hosted at the Battle of Ideas |
Standing Up to Supernanny [foreword] (Societas, 2009)
Ground Zero Tolerance: America's Culture War
"I was impressed by the intensity of the debate and the high level of intellectual engagement, not least by the audience. It was an invigorating, even exhilarating experience to be part of a festival based on the conviction that disagreement is good. The Battle of Ideas is a fantastic concept, may it spread epidemically to the rest of the world. I am already looking forward to next year's event."
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; novelist
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