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Conversations: With Professor John Gray, Political Philosopher & Author

John Anderson: Conversations

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The Role of Britain in the COVID Epidemic

It was popular until pretty recent times to say that Western society had rejected grand narratives, you know, the meta narratives are all dead. In other words, we're all post-modernists now. But I wonder the present culture wars, which seeing extraordinary sort of return of absolutism and a renewed trust in science. We've had the return of paranoid worldviews, of conspiracy worldviews in a big way,. very strong in France and Germany, for example, anti-vax movements.

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