Michael Esfeld Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Lausanne Leopoldina Academy of Natural Sciences (German National Academy of Sciences), Swiss Institute of Freedom.
He recently Brownstone Institute In the United States: Fiat Money and the Corona Regime: Postmodernism in Reality and The republican illusion.
In this interview, he discusses with Alex Thomson how the phrase “rule of law” has been distorted to mean its opposite, in fact referring to the rule of natural law taking precedence over tyrannical legislation, and how in the 19th century, especially in Britain and France, liberalism gave way to utilitarianism and a rhetoric of the “common good”, “democracy” and “universal will”.General will).
Professor Esfeld criticizes the government's monopoly on public life in the last century:education, health care, media, Science) warned that arrogance, backed by the “violence of the State” of compulsory funding of public “services”, leads to corruption – a warning that had already been issued by Sir Karl Popper. During World War IIThe proper function of the executive branch of government is not to create, but simply to Secure Rule of law: Maintaining peace within the country and protecting it from the outside.
Esfeld also spoke about the academic world, press The publishing industry and academics tried to cancel his publications for doing his job as a philosopher. He is one of at least two academics who have been banned from the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest publishing event in the German-speaking world, for questioning the response of Central European governments to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was criticized by his own academic peers for: Nestobe Schmutzer“It's a desecration of the nest of science.” This is particularly ironic for Esfeld, who, as he said in an interview, grew up within sight of the Berlin Wall.
Books by Professor Michael Esfeld Mut without land (“A Country Without Courage”) has been published in German and will soon be published in English. The author is Publisher interview in Germanhe Interview in French On the threat of an end to the rule of law in the coronavirus era.
Judge Christian Dettmer's case Legal Opinion The accusations against his stance on Covid (obstruction of justice) mentioned in this interview were featured in the 30 September 2023 episode of UK Column News from 18:44 onwards (see also the show notes below the video upload).
Dying for your health (2018), the Conference on the UK column on NHS privatisation referred to in this interview can be found here.
