O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t. 

— William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll.  

The Conversation, which promises its readers ‘academic rigour’ and ‘journalistic flair’ (provided you don’t have any reservations at all about the popular climate change narrative), last week managed to incense a large proportion of its own woke readership with a Machiavellian little piece by Parker Crutchfield, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Humanities and Law at Western Michigan University.  

‘Morality pills’ may be the US’s best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist is Crutchfield’s self-righteous, virtue-signalling, ‘trust me, I’m a doctor – I’ve got a PhD!’ playbook for dealing with...