Monthly Archives: June 2016

Sam Rye posted a link to Mr. Taibbi’s compelling essay at the very stogy, not to speak of Corporatist Financial Times: http://on.ft.com/292vrCK Mr . Rye makes the soundest kind of argument that Mr. Taibbi makes a case of more cogency … Continue reading →

Headline: I do not believe that Brexit will happen Sub-Headline : There will be howls of rage, but why should extremists on both sides dictate how the story ends? Gideon Rachman is in high dungeon at the Brexit vote and … Continue reading →

Chris C. Thank you for your comment. As Yanis Varoufakis pointed out the EU began life as a cartel, although eventually garnished with the trappings of Democracy, and from my point of view   needs to be reformed, from the ground … Continue reading →

I’ve been expecting Bagehot’s comment on the Brexit, but I wonder where he has been, and what he has not been reading? The Rebellion Against The Elites has been the Party Line at The Financial Times, the once sister publication … Continue reading →

Headline: ‘Brexit deals a grievous blow to the international order’ Sub-headline: ‘The repercussions in Europe will be incalculable, writes Tony Barber’ To what international order does Mr. Barber refer ? The Neo-Liberal order collapsed with a deafening crash in 2008. … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the editors at the Financial Times, your political desperation has reached a kind of denouement, in Mr. Gavin’s  historical meditation on  Henry VIII and his break with the Catholic Church, over his divorce and his eventual confiscation of … Continue reading →

I’m working my way through Prof. McCloskey’s The Rhetoric of Economics, second edition. There is no more elegant, erudite a writer on The Dismal Science.( Economists, like Lawyers, are by nature self-celebrants.)  Yet the reader comes to her last paragraph, … Continue reading →

Never fear at The Financial Times the Brexit hysterics are becoming more and more strident as the date of the vote approaches: Mr. Schama produces a model of it’s kind, although more historically and intellectually sophisticated: complete with a shameless coda … Continue reading →

In his essay on Mr. Wilentz, framed by the career of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.,a for rent public intellectual, who reveled in socializing with movers and shakers, and apprenticed himself to JFK, and who became chronicler of The Camelot Crushed mythology, Michael … Continue reading →

You have to wonder at ‘Modern Conservatism’ ! Disraeli used his novels to express his evolving ideas about the practice of politics, and it’s philosophical foundations. How arresting is the fact of this kind of genius? it inspires a kind … Continue reading →