In an historical overview, this paper links to the paradox that the increasing scientification of politics leads to a politicisation of science. For a long time, scientists offered their capabilities as ‘speaking truth to power’. Since the beginning of the 1990s, this input has been transformed into an argumentative policy analysis. This reinvigorates political prudence as ‘making sense together’.

David Hare tells a Covid-19 patient's experience in his play Beat the Devil: A Covid Monologue staged 2020. Starting from own experience, sheds light on an old individual’s process. Since he does not know how virus influences him, loses confidence health sector and government's politics. The text shows older man's lonely struggle for finding truth post-truth era when can be quickly warped throu...

About the author. . . . Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) intuitive and visceral rejection of the economics, politics, and science of European civilization in the 19th century led him to predict, “There will be wars such as there have never been on earth before.” His dominant aphoristic style of writing and his insistence of truth as convenient fiction, or irrefutable error, have puzzled philos...