Society & Politics - Dr Robert N. Winter (Page 2)

Response: We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives

Those of us who believe in the merits of conservatism, the road ahead is one on which it is more important than ever to start calling ourselves conservatives.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 25 Oct 2022

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act I, Scene IV by Henry Fuseli

The Sources of Soviet Conduct

Today's Russia is pursuing the same aims as in 1946: autarchy for Russia and Russian-dominated adjacent areas by a leader, under pressure from nationalistic backers, who has miscalculated the situation.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 24 Sep 2022

Lenin, Trotsky and Kamenev celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution, 7 November 1919

With a Quiet Heart

The Queen was an ever constant in a changeable and unpredictable world. Over seven decades, she was always there for us.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 19 Sep 2022

The Subjective Nature of 'Nothing to Hide'

Whether you have something to hide has far more to do with who is looking than what they can see.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 30 Jul 2022

The Subjective Nature of 'Nothing to Hide'

Marginalia: Anatomy of a Search Engine

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 4 Jun 2022

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5 reasons I will be celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

It becomes a partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 1 Jun 2022

1965, The Opening of Parliament, Queens royal procession.

Pseudo-Profound Bullshit

In this context, we do well to reject the bullshitters of this world, but we do our understanding a disservice if we are sceptical to a fault.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 23 May 2022

They Are Teachable

One of History's lessons is that once a group is deemed unteachable they will be placed in the category of an ever present threat to the preferred social order.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 28 Feb 2022

Railway tracks passing through the main gate of Auschwitz-Birkenau, with the brick watchtower and camp buildings visible beneath a wide sky, visitors near the entrance.

Teflon Leadership

Those who rise to the top jobs, do so not because they are better leaders or have fewer blots on their copybook — it is because they are better able to shrug off criticism and weather the blistering attacks that are directed at all holders of public office.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 24 Jan 2022

Power and Control: Tech Billionaires in Politics

Don't worry about the populist, worry about what comes after them. And what is coming seems clear: Billionaires of the 2.0 revolution.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 7 Nov 2021

Image of a concrete wall with a security camera pointed at the words "what are you looking at?"

Marginalia: Protect Duty

While I am not keen on the idea of self-policing, lest we go the way of some American states, I do wonder if society may not be better able to protect its citizens if its citizens were more involved in that self-same protection. Be it physical, intellectual or cyber.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 18 May 2021

Hail, Lobster!

The moment when left leaning popular culture overreached itself and instead of fascist shaming a once obscure academic into silence, brought back into popular use what had long been taboo and empowered the very thing they thought they were destroying.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 16 Apr 2021

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