Monthly Archives: August 2015

Trump is the culmination of Republican Party mendacity. The beginning of Trumpism can be traced from the ‘Generation of Treason’ of the Nixon/Mundt/McCarthy/McCarren Cold War alliance. And from Goldwater, the Dixiecrat mass migration in 1964 and 1965, to the New … Continue reading →

‘The West’ is at the beginning of the end of the Neo-Liberal Age. It is a time of great uncertainty and the stakeholders of that old order, like Mr. Schama, are experiencing a kind of panic, best described as fear … Continue reading →

It isn’t readily apparent to the Financial Times editors and writers that the age of the Neo-Liberal ascendancy is at an end, and in political answer to that death, or at least it’s coma, Mr. Giles offers his extensive comments … Continue reading →

If your have served on a jury or been called for jury duty in the US, I have been called three times in the last few years, the Judge will casually announce, to the assembled prospective jurors, that the Court … Continue reading →

The Neo-Liberal Consensus is failed, no matter the pronouncements coming from The Economist or The Financial Times! These declarations about the ‘Hard Left’,’Loony Left’ and other such locutions are the rhetorical cover adopted to mask that failure. Ignoring the rise … Continue reading →

Never let it be said that the Oxbridgers, at the Economist, ever let their elite educations go the waste. As in the title of this essay, a literary reference for only the most sophisticated reader to decipher. While I though … Continue reading →

Tundan Sabah’s wonderfully pungent comment echoes some, but not all of my thoughts, regarding these ‘revelations’. His deliciously contemptuous polemic helped me to clarify my own thoughts, the measure of writing at it’s best.   The raw data collected by … Continue reading →

If Trump is the culmination of Republican Party mendacity: From Goldwater, the Dixiecrat mass migration in 1964 and 1965, to the New Nixon of 68, The Southern Strategy that even pitchman Reagan embraced at the Neshoba County Fair in 1980, … Continue reading →

Mr. Clive Crook left The Financial Times for Bloomberg View, both house organs of Capitalist Apologetics. His regular readers won’t be disappointed in his latest essay at Bloomberg titled ‘Are You Rich? No Need to Apologize‘ . It takes the … Continue reading →

Leadership is to politics what productivity is to economics: not quite the only thing that matters but almost. A party with a good frontman or woman can afford to get everything else wrong, and probably will not. Most other variables … Continue reading →