Trump is great because he calls a spade a spade, which is unheard of in Western politics, says Prof James Alexander. What's more, sometimes, as we saw with Iran, he refuses, like the philosopher, to take sides.
An empirical MIT study has found that ChatGPT and other similar AI systems erode students' capacity to read, write and think critically. This should be obvious, says Prof James Alexander, but we have been warned.
The anti-Trump No Kings protests cling to a '3.5% Rule' that claims tiny minorities can topple tyrants. It's yet another ridiculous generalisation by a political scientist, says Prof James Alexander.
The problems with universities run deeper than free speech, says Professor James Alexander. They have become a conspiracy against the public: privileged, degraded, pandering institutions heading towards heat death.
"I don’t mean to do a man down on the occasion of his death," says Professor James Alexander, "but the Beach Boys were either insanely cheerful, or maudlin with thin self-pity." Was Brian Wilson overrated?
Shakespeare is the key to understanding Trump, says Prof James Alexander. Trump is not system-politics, is not deep-state politics. Trump is court politics. And Shakespeare is our guide to the flamboyance of the court.
Attorney General Lord Hermer – who was last week accused of likening ECHR-sceptics to Nazis – seems to think 'Schmitt' is a polite way of saying 'Hitler'. He obviously has not read Schmitt, says Professor James Alexander.
As Tommy Robinson emerges with a beard, Prof James Alexander muses on their rise on the Right. If Boris Johnson had not been so insanely clean-shaven, he would surely have stood up like a man to the nonsense of Covid.
In the Daily Sceptic, James Alexander, a politics professor, writes about Alasdair MacIntryre, the Catholic moral philosopher who died last week.
People can no longer rant about bloody murder, says James Alexander. The judges condemned Lucy Connolly as if she were Boadicea, but she was just a Shakespearian plebeian voicing the sentiments of anyone shocked by murder.
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