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Alastair Pearson

Ethics of crowd control under assault

To be clear, there is no sanction for violence that aims directly at undermining the legitimacy of the state, and protesters who eagerly vandalise the storefronts that are the livelihoods of normal people should not be free from justice. But failing to engage directly with the arguments of authoritarian alt-right about how to handle riots permits the ascendancy of genuine extremists

Americans in Oxford: a graduate’s angle

The concrete rituals of an Oxford education are easy enough to describe, though their significance is less clear: one or three or more years...

America’s values will survive President Trump

Alastair Pearson argues that the American Republic is well-equipped with the means to respond to Trump’s authoritarianism

Republicans in Oxford: the US presidential election

Alastair Pearson explores the experiences of American conservatives in Oxford in the days leading up to the US presidential election