The Bureaucratic and Authoritarian Implications of “The Science”
One of the victims of covid and the reactions to the pandemic, has been the reputation of science. This is best summed up in the…
Articles by Don Trubshaw
The Imperfect Paradise: Narratives of Ordinary Life and the Incursion of Evil
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” (Hannah Arendt, The…
Book Review: Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, “Cynical Theories: How Universities Made Everything about Race, Gender and Identity – and Why This Harms Everybody”
It tells us something when a potential reviewer of a book is warned that so doing could spell the end of their academic career, or…
Sergei Plays Russian Roulette
[Trrrrr] Allo; This is Sergei; You know me from your televisors If you xaven’t forgotten me already [Click] I started the veek as a cuddly…
The Theatre of Unreason: War and Identity Politics
Is there a connection between Putin’s war in Ukraine and identity politics? The de facto Russian dictator’s contempt for the woke politics of the Western…
Social Morality from Kant’s Categorical Imperative to Transcendent Individualism
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens…
Boris cleans up for Christmas
Crickey, this omicron business is coming at a bad time of year, although a good time for me. Let’s me sweep that business about parties…
The Totalitarian Ratchet: how fear, ignorance and disgust is eroding the democratic spirit and presages an ominous future.
The recent decision by Austria to mandate vaccinations for all its citizens, followed now by Germany and the Czech Republic, is the latest turn of…
Cluster____’s Last Stand
Now gather round children; Today I’m going to tell you a story about one of the heroes of our country, General Cluster____ Please Miss? Yes,…
On the Virtue of Conflict
Viruses and vaccines are very much on our mind at the moment, and they stand in also as ready metaphors for social dangers and prophylactics….