Monthly Archives: March 2016

The Silver Fork Punditry that Mr. Ganesh practices with such aplomb, not to speak of sang-froid seems to degenerated into the usual stern moral/political lecture favored by Conservatives. Yet the millennials he targets are just part of a collection of … Continue reading →

The choice of Judge Garland reflects the ersatz virtue of Obama: he is not simply a ‘Centrist’, of the most unimaginative kind, but more importantly an abject political/legal conformist. The safe choice of a ‘Centrist’ a center defined by the … Continue reading →

There are no surprises here! The Republican Nihilists, named ‘The Freedom Coalition’, as unintentional homage to double speak? will, in an election year, prove by their political actions that they are simply the shock troops for Mr. Trump as American … Continue reading →

No American politician can escape the reality of the Israel Lobby! Abe Foxman and Aron David Miller are both integral parts of that Lobby, chronicled in the Walt and Mearsheimer book, and this 2006 excerpt in the London Review of … Continue reading →

Another voice from a ‘Center’ dominated by a total lack of political modesty and an unshakable faith in Neo-Liberalism, and its successor the TPP, offers more of the same: a belief in the political inevitability of both Trump and Clinton. … Continue reading →

Does Ms. Tett’s column mark a shift of The Party Line at The Financial Times? From the Rebellion against The Elites hysteria, to a grudging acceptance of Tump as a political inevitability? At which point, we must come to terms … Continue reading →

‘Only women become more radical with age’ One can only marvel at the self-congratulation of this statement, in light of her sharing the stage with both Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright. Mrs. Clinton who supported three of the cornerstones of … Continue reading →

‘A specter haunts the post-Cold War liberal order—the specter of radical spiritual malaise. This discontent with or downright opposition to the Western-originated, universalist claims of the broadly liberal cultural, economic, and political order takes diverse forms. One can detect it … Continue reading →

In his first polemic against Trump, titled ‘The Governing Cancer of Our Time’ ( Brooks has a gift for the pretentious and the hyperbolic!) Mr. Brooks takes a wide and distant shot of American Political life, to use a cinematic … Continue reading →

Mr. Weisberg chooses Sinclair Lewis’ ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ as the rhetorical frame for his homily against ‘the loony left’ and the ‘loony right’ which turns out to be part of the ‘Rebellion against the Elites’ series here at The … Continue reading →