Monthly Archives: April 2015

When thinking about Mr. Brooks it becomes self-evident that he shares much in common with the self-hating, relentlessly hectoring tradition of Paul, Augustine and Jerome, with the addition of the Puritan religious politics of Cotton Mather. The notion that worldly … Continue reading →

From reading this essay, one might just surmise that various ‘reporters’ contributed parts of it, and then the editors cobbled together the final version, in a long but productive conference: Neo-Liberals have many points of agreement.The point of the conference … Continue reading →

The perennial political weather forecast for American Likudniks/Neo-Conservatives: it is always Munich and/or Yalta! The give away: the operative word/metaphor ‘appeasement’. And he is not above a cliche ridden public shaming of that European ‘appeasement’, that is redolent with the … Continue reading →

Mr. Rachman names Paul Kennedy at Yale, Niall Ferguson at Harvard and Ian Morris at Stanford as the major practitioners of Declinism, but for those of us who came of age in mid-century America, will recall that this triad of … Continue reading →

You have to give Mr. Signorile credit for his work for Gay Equality while recognizing that his tactic of ‘outing’ prominent public persons as gay was redolent of Robespierre’s political practice of public denunciation or even, more contemporaneously, with the … Continue reading →

Haven’t read Mr. Frum for quite a while ! One conjectures, is a book in the works? But Mr. Frum proves his value as a Bush Apologist, as this essay demonstrates. But not without some rhetorical sideswipes at Ms. Clinton, … Continue reading →

It’s probably too much to ask that Mr. Luce face the terrible fact that we now live in a Post-Neo-Liberal world, or more simply the utter decline of that spent political delusion, still in it’s death rattle : witness the … Continue reading →

Where else, but at The Economist, would a shopworn Neo-Liberal like Mayor Emanuel receive plaudits for his snappy one-liners, and his slavish recitation/practice of the cliches, of the utterly failed economic/political paradigm of that same Neo-Liberalism? Where else might the … Continue reading →