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Author: Balder Hageraats

This author has written 19 articles

FINAL COVID Q&A

  • Post author:Balder Hageraats
  • Post published:09/06/2020
  • Post category:IN FOCUS

This will be the final In Focus before taking a bit of a summer break. When I return, I will return to analysing foreign policy in general. This is not…

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THE ROAD TO TOTALITARIANISM -Analysis

  • Post author:Balder Hageraats
  • Post published:03/06/2020
  • Post category:IN FOCUS

This article has been divided into two parts, to read the illustrative version click here One of the issues I have received most critical feedback on over these past months…

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THE ROAD TO TOTALITARIANISM

  • Post author:Balder Hageraats
  • Post published:02/06/2020
  • Post category:IN FOCUS

This article has been divided into two parts, to read the analysis version click here  Spain, January 2035  “Smart Lockdown” is in place once again for the beginning of the…

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A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE GUARDIAN’S COVERAGE OF COVID-19

  • Post author:Balder Hageraats
  • Post published:26/05/2020
  • Post category:IN FOCUS

It’s been a few weeks since I wrote my previous Corona-related piece. Since then, there has been good news and bad news. We have seen an increase in cases in…

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EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES REQUIRE EXTRAORDINARY JUSTIFICATION

  • Post author:Balder Hageraats
  • Post published:06/05/2020
  • Post category:IN FOCUS

In past publications I have outlined the terrible cost we are paying for our corona response. The figures have only gotten worse since. Millions of lives lost because of our…

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THE ART OF DOING NOTHING

  • Post author:Balder Hageraats
  • Post published:14/04/2020
  • Post category:IN FOCUS

A common response to people criticising lockdown or other extreme anti-corona measures is “well, what’s the alternative?”. This is a common fallacy: people see a problem, someone comes up with…

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CORONA HYSTERIA: IT GIVETH, AND TAKETH AWAY

  • Post author:Balder Hageraats
  • Post published:08/04/2020
  • Post category:IN FOCUS

The world as we know it faces two existential threats: environmental degradation and collapse of global society due to income inequality. It is disheartening to observe how neither one of…

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THE FREEDOM TO SELF-INCARCERATE

  • Post author:Balder Hageraats
  • Post published:31/03/2020
  • Post category:IN FOCUS

An open society is much more fragile than it may seem. In the name of Corona, we are currently deeply harming the very fabric of what makes countries have high degrees of wellbeing, freedom and resilience.

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Monday (March 23): At least corona doesn’t discriminate, unlike society.

  • Post author:Balder Hageraats
  • Post published:23/03/2020
  • Post category:DAILY

Name? Harvey Weinstein Westphalian identity? Ogre (and US American) Age? 68, i.e. old enough to make his prison sentence a proper punishment Why is he in the news? He got…

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BEWARE THE MEDICALTOCRACY

  • Post author:Balder Hageraats
  • Post published:18/03/2020
  • Post category:IN FOCUS

For those old enough to remember the world in the years after 9/11, it is easy to remember the panic and obsession in Western countries with respect to jihadi extremism…

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