Politics Professor James Alexander salutes Giorgio Agamben. Written off by his former disciples on the left as an "anti-vaccine conspiracy nutcase", he is one of the few academic philosophers to truly 'get' the pandemic.
Why have nearly all the muckety-mucks in journalism been asleep at the wheel for the past three years, asks Dr James Alexander in the Daily Sceptic? Hopefully, the 'Lockdown Files' will shame them into action.
Politics professor James Alexander says the Lockdown Files do not prove the Government’s pandemic response was driven by careerism and political calculation. He still detects the hands of conspirators at work.
Politics professor James Alexander believes we need to move from the Age of Sustainability and the Age of Progress to the Age of Faith. But only a prophet can strike down the secular-corporatist global elite.
Professor James Alexander argues that woke-ism is not cultural Marxism, but an outcrop of liberalism.
Politics professor James Alexander ruminates about how toxic the word ‘zero’ has become, signalling intolerance and an unwillingness to compromise, whether it’s ‘Net Zero’, ‘Zero Covid’ or ‘Zero Tolerance’.
The Left’s embrace of ‘intersectionality’ – a theoretical rationale for building coalitions between disparate groups – has been a strategic masterstroke. Is it time for the Right to follow suit?
Politics Professor James Alexander has stumbled across an article in the Journal of Soccer Science that explains England’s exit from the World Cup – the ligament damage caused by taking the knee.
Politics professor James Alexander points out that ‘free speech’ can mean two different things: one is respectable and political; the other is sceptical and eccentric.
In a thoughtful essay for the Daily Sceptic, professor James Alexander asks what should replace the Conservative Party, assuming it will shortly expire. He thinks the answer is a party of the countryside and the church.
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