Monthly Archives: February 2016

Mr. Deist’s political monologue was interesting even compelling listening. Yet when it came to examination/explanation of the Left as being friendly to The World Bank and the IMF, it was a description more in keeping with Neo-Liberals like Clinton and … Continue reading →

Thousands march against trident nuclear system renewal February 27, 2016 Press Association ‘The Ministry of Defence has estimated acquiring four new submarines to carry the Trident deterrent will cost £31bn over the course of the 20-year procurement programme, with a … Continue reading →

This essay expresses a mixture of hectoring and hand wringing over Trump! An impotent cri de cœur ? Too little too late? To paraphrase Goya, the sleep of reason  brings forth monsters. The Republicans have been engaging in, and or, flirting … Continue reading →

Mr. Bremmer sells a product, if nothing else The Economist idolizes the entrepreneur: ‘Eurasia Group provides analysis and expertise about how political developments and national security dynamics move markets and shape investment environments across the globe.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bremmer One could say … Continue reading →

I am going to re-post a comment that I tweeted to Mr. Schama on February 21, 2016 via TwitLonger: Link to Schama’s Financial Times essay: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d6a75c3c-d6f3-11e5-829b-8564e7528e54.html#axzz40l84ZKpE @simon_schama Just the latest on the pressing question of ‘Jewish Money’: A link available … Continue reading →

There is no doubt that the author of this obituary is schooled in the Scalia patois, in fact she/he is adept at sounding the notes of witless bulling insult that is the hallmark of that Scalia style! But was Scalia … Continue reading →

A political observer could call Mr. Ganesh a Tory Hazlitt,  who has accepted the notion of political compromise, as a coming to terms with the responsibilities of governance, as practiced in Western Democracies. Sometimes we must govern as part of … Continue reading →

Gone this week is the hysterical tone of The Rebellion against The Elites of last week. Replacing that ‘Rebellion’ as the current rhetorical frame is the ‘Isolationism’ of Trump and Sanders, far right and hard left respectively,  as opponents of … Continue reading →

The hard truth that all bourgeois respectable pundits avoid is that Originalism is the child of the politics of States Rights, as the political rationale for Jim Crow. How bitter is the reality that American Jurists swear not just allegiance, … Continue reading →

Here is a still from pages 186 & 187  from  Rudiger Safranski’s Philosophical Biography of Nietzsche, available as a PDF here: (Thank you to Ross Wolfe!) Click to access rucc88diger-safranski-nietzsche-a-philosophical-biography.pdf I had read this essay at The Financial Times on … Continue reading →