James Alexander

Trump's clash with Harvard shows a deeper culture war over what universities should be, with the Government pushing for merit and neutrality while Harvard clings to power and privilege, says Prof James Alexander.

Two members of the Royal Society resigned and thousands of Fellows protested over Elon Musk's membership. But not a whisper was heard when Covid-cover-up king Anthony Fauci was made a Fellow, says James Alexander.

The rise of AI moves us dangerously close to a dystopia where illiterate humans are beholden to ultra-competent machines, warns Professor James Alexander. Can anything prevent us from surrendering completely?

Professor James Alexander explains why the Lords should be hereditary: "The hereditary principle appeals to our common sense. Our sense that society will have hierarchies and that these hierarchies should be dignified."

James Alexander mocks Matthew Parris's recent preachy take on America as lazy London liberalism, offering instead a boots-on-the-ground defence of Trumpism as a necessary, if flawed, political correction.

Politics professor James Alexander says the liberal order that we cherish is incapable of defending itself without a sense of common purpose and that can only be provided by the Christian religion.

It is a sad reflection on our age that the line 'lies, damned lies and statistics' was forgotten, says Prof James Alexander. Good political sense can never be grounded on statistics, but only on history and criticism.

What do Keir Starmer, David Cameron and Boris Johnson have in common? Simple, says Prof James Alexander: once in power, they did the opposite of what their party stands for. Call it the Law of Inverse Policy.

There's something distinctly illiberal about what goes under the name 'Political Science', says Prof James Alexander. Half its practitioners want to control our thoughts and the rest wonder why no one trusts government.

When the state confined whole populations to their homes and bossed us around for years during Covid, where were the philosophers who say they love liberty? Cheering on the authoritarians, says Prof James Alexander.

Those who talk about far Right, hard Right or Right-wing extremism are probably finding a scapegoat for their own systematic internalised fascism, suggests Prof James Alexander.

While Trump dithers on the WHO, Milei goes for the jugular, says Prof James Alexander – calling it the enforcer of history’s biggest social control experiment and slamming lockdowns as a crime against humanity. Good!