Monthly Archives: July 2016

Mr. Davies makes more interesting and creative use of some of the available statistical data than did Jürgen Habermas in an interview reprinted at The Social Europe web site. Core Europe To The Rescue: A Conversation With Jürgen Habermas About … Continue reading →

In this ‘interview’ conducted by fellow traveler Thomas Assheuer,  Habermas proves himself to be a Neo-Liberal, not a democrat, mitigated by Mr. Habermas’ penchant for    self-congratulatory intellectual garnish e.g….– in what Hegel would have called a valet’s perspective –…  … Continue reading →

Arthur C. Brooks has just awoken from a very long Neo-Liberal slumber to find the USA about to burst into political flame,1968 style. Although Mr. Brooks was born in 1964, this reader was there and witnessed it first hand! Mr. … Continue reading →

The first to comment in this collection of small essays  on the Brexit Vote is David Runciman.It is a myopic political analysis filled with data and a special pleading for Proportional  Representation, that functions argumentatively as some kind of answer … Continue reading →

After all the back biting gossip and display of ‘Class Disloyalty’, as entertaining as it was, Mr. Kuper bends low, to defend the coming economic consequences of the Brexit’s effect, on the wage earner whose £20,000 per year will be … Continue reading →

With the Brexit vote now an established fact, a crushing but momentary  defeat to the Neo-Liberal Cameron’s political ambition , the manufactured Labour  Antisemitism crisis in the momentary stasis of ‘investigation’, and Corbyn firmly established as leader of the Party, … Continue reading →

Kudos to Mr. Bacevich. He has managed to evoke from one of The Vulcans a shrill defensive polemic, which at times recovers itself to make some trenchant but short lived observations, in which this policy maker defends not just the … Continue reading →

It has been some time since we have read Mr. Caldwell in the pages of The Financial Times. As background to reading Caldwell on the American Trump phenomenon, and to further the readers knowledge of his idiosyncratic Neo-Conservative world view, … Continue reading →

Monsignor Douthat’s remit as Opus Dei operative in American Life is to patrol the wombs of American women, to prattle on about ‘out of wedlock births’ the Mortal Sin of abortion and the general Moral Decline, as some of the … Continue reading →

Here is where Mr. Sullivan’s essay actually begins, in his natural habitat, the cocktail party of movers and shakers in Washington D.C. ‘And so, as I chitchatted over cocktails at a Washington office Christmas party in December, and saw,…’ One … Continue reading →