Monthly Archives: August 2015

Isn’t the very idea of the  writer, who has been very successful, yoked to the exercise of egotism? What is the driving force that leads anyone to be a writer? The thought/practice that one has something important to say, that … Continue reading →

Never fear it is perpetually 1952 at The Beast! And the political weather is always turbulent. There is my consistent  favorite, Mr. Weiss, to do the heavy lifting, handling the weighty matter of Robert Conquest’s obituary, stoking the New Cold … Continue reading →

The obituary of Mr. Conquest is the perfect opportunity for Old Cold War Nostalgia that dovetails quite nicely with the New Cold War and Putin as the New Stalin! No surprise here! The crimes of Stalin and his western apologists … Continue reading →

The Neo-Liberal Consensus is not just fissuring before our eyes, due to it’s abject failure to deliver on it’s ersatz utopianism, based on the fiction of the self-correcting Market and other self-serving fictions: those fictions can no longer hold, in … Continue reading →

The Poles have a history of a pose of independence, this from the Economist of November 30, 2011, with the headline of : ‘Sikorski: hero or traitor? Backwash from Berlin’ What of reaction elsewhere? Readers may be surprised to hear … Continue reading →

Where else but breitbart.com, named after the craven political opportunist Andrew, comes this story, in all it’s white hysterical glory, that the historical inevitability of the revival of The Black Panther Party has happened! The model offered by Huey P. … Continue reading →

I have reached the point of complete exasperation with the self-proclaimed technocrats, the ones that Lippmann celebrated as the guardians against too much democracy, who have been not just wrong, but catastrophically wrong, on almost every ‘policy question’ since 2000 … Continue reading →

Ms. Tett begins her review of PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future, by Paul Mason with some interesting observations on Wikipedia, but it isn’t long before the usual Financial Times’ Anti-Left Hysterics becomes primary, not anything like a surprise. But notice … Continue reading →

If there is a successor to Edward Said, it is without doubt Pankaj Mishra. For proof  of this claim read his essay titled ‘The Sound of Cracking’, a review of two books cited below, in the August 27, 2015 edition … Continue reading →

For a challenging and insightful essay on Hayek see John Grey’s essay here: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/john-gray-friedrich-hayek-i-knew-and-what-he-got-right-and-wrong For a more complete examination of Hayek as thinker,writer,economist see this issue of Critical Review titled Hayek:The Good, The Bad,The Ugly. http://www.criticalreview.com/crf/current_issue25_34.html Political Observer