David Betz sees the West sliding into civil war, while David A Hughes says elites are engineering a global technocracy. Prof James Alexander argues we should heed them both.
Politics Professor James Alexander reflects on the death of Blue Peter producer Biddy Baxter and concludes that while the BBC's Reithian condescension was pretty sick-making, its descent into populist vulgarity is worse.
With Islam only growing in relevance for the West, Professor James Alexander draws on Hegel, Belloc and Girard to offer some thoughts on what Islam is and its significance for Christian and post-Christian societies.
Academia is becoming increasingly irrelevant as academics become more and more specialised, argues politics professor James Alexander.
Edinburgh University's 'Decolonised Transformations: Confronting the University of Edinburgh’s History and Legacies of Enslavement and Colonialism,' is Left-wing politics of the worst kind, says Professor James Alexander.
Professor James Alexander, who once played in a Heavy Metal band, pays tribute to Ozzy Osbourne as a pioneer of the genre that for many young men supplies an identity and lifestyle. Yes, it's weird. But it has its place.
Leftists love to rail against imperialism. Why then, asks Professor James Alexander, do they think it's acceptable for every disturbed individual to be able to dictate their nutty pronouns to the whole world?
Bill Gates has said only three jobs will survive the AI revolution: computer programmers, energy engineers and biologists. Professor James Alexander is somewhat alarmed by this coming 'Internet of Things'.
After watching Jordan Peterson surrounded by 20 atheists and struggling to deflect their blows, Prof James Alexander has some friendly advice: stop trying to defend a watered down, secularised version of Christianity.
In an age in which the Government is threatening to pay more for death-by-medicine than for life-by-medicine, the National Health Service should be renamed the National Dealth Service, says Professor James Alexander.
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