Monthly Archives: March 2015

Here are four paragraphs from Mr. Douthat’s March 28, 2015 essay that seem more pertinent than his analysis of the difference between the ‘Pax Americana’ model of Foreign Policy and the ‘offshore balancing system’. Title it Douthat’s Potted History. The … Continue reading →

The opening paragraph of Ms. Rubin’s latest essay, On an Iran deal, reports of concessions galore  is carefully framed as imaginative reconstruction/speculation as the in order too of  placing blame on the French, for leaks from the P5+1 negotiations: one … Continue reading →

‘Much has happened in between; mass deregulation of international banking, technological advancements in trading, and the use of the World Bank (and the IMF and various central banks) to subsidize bank led speculation by submitting weak countries to austerity measures … Continue reading →

C.R. does a workman like job in his essay NIMBY’s in the twenty-first century of Piketty Bashing, briefly sharing the stage with other ‘Left Wing’ intellectual celebrities:  ‘… Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s leather-jacket wearing finance minister, Naomi Klein and Russell Brand…’  … Continue reading →

My two comments to this Telegraph news story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11490893/ECB-hits-out-at-Greek-blackmail-claims-as-Merkel-holds-steady-in-bail-out-demands.html#comment-1925048816 Comment number one: The Germans were bailed out four time in the 20th Century: 1924, 1929, 1932 and 1953! Given that reality reported here in the ultra respectable and ultra conservative … Continue reading →

The champagne corks are popping in the fortresses of Neo-Liberalism, or have I overstated the case? The Mighty Piketty has been brought low by a mere graduate student! Where else but at the Financial Times or The Economist would this … Continue reading →

As the Neo-Liberal paradigm continues to flounder, even collapse, engulfing the E.U. with it, it is vital that we not forget the question of Germany’s war time reparations debt to Greece, as much as the Economist would like to trivialize … Continue reading →

One simply has to marvel at Mr. O’Hanlon’s exercise in hagiography and apologetics. It reminds me of the late Joe Alsop, and his long line of political enthusiasms. See Edwin Yoder’s Joe Alsop’s Cold War and the gossip fest disguised … Continue reading →

Mr. Gass, in his essay misses the point of the incident: the Republican Party in it’s post 9-11 phase and it’s two losses to Obama, has lapsed into a consistent political hysteria mongering. Yet it is also consistent with the … Continue reading →

Call Mr. Luce a dramaturge that can’t resist the temptation of producing melodrama instead of it’s more virtuous sibling. The first paragraph of his essay posits the notions of: The multilateral Iran negotiations as being Obama’s biggest foreign policy gamble, … Continue reading →