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Morgenthau wrote the essays in Truth and Power during the turbulent 1960s, but some of his observations have an eerie relevance to today’s politics. For example, in 1964, in an essay entitled “Modern Science and Political Power,” Morgenthau warned that our democracy was endangered by the scientific-technological-governmental trinity. “Power,” Morgenthau wrote, “has shifted from the people to the government. Within the government, power has shifted from democratically responsible officials to certain technological elites, military and scientific, which are not democratically responsible.

The anti-freedom anti-private business hysteria-driven lockdown policies of Socialist Left Premier Daniel Andrews in Victoria, Australia, are making the police who have to enforce these policies into a hated species. Former Victorian premier, the libertarian Jeff Kennett, has described this government as a “health dictatorship”. Today the dictatorial Andrews government has extended one of the most draconian lockdowns in the world despite the huge damage it is doing to so many people’s lives. The Victorian Chamber of Commerce (VCC) responded almost immediately by releasing a statement headlined: “Stage 4 lockdown extension will deliver Victoria into economic devastation.” The VCC Chief...

Kim Jong Un building 'mini world' with replica Big Ben and Eiffel Tower Chubby tyrant Kim Jong Un is building a “miniature world” in North Korea – with a replica of London's Big Ben at its heart. The dictator is set to open the theme park in capital Pyongyang – and has included the iconic clock tower. The new attraction, which opens this year, will also boast a copy of Paris’ Eiffel Tower. The secretive state famously doesn’t allow its citizens to leave the country – so it appears Jong Un has decided to bring the world to his people....