Monthly Archives: September 2016

Never fear, Mr. Sarkozy’s resort to the neo-fascist trope “your ancestors are the Gauls.” : the autochthonous tribe, a distant echo of Heidegger’s volk! This, an example of a usable political nostalgia, all scrubbed clean of any taint, making it more … Continue reading →

Headline: How the west might soon be lost Sub-headline: Under a President Trump, democracy would lose credibility as a model for a civilised political life   Mr. Wolf’s intervention is too little too late! Awash in the misplaced self-congratulation of … Continue reading →

In sum, Mr. Eaton’s essay expresses his contempt for Corbyn and his followers, the favored target of the respectable bourgeois press. See the Financial Times in its continuing assault on the ‘Rebellion Against The Elites’ i.e. the evil of ‘Populism’, … Continue reading →

Headline: We are all Stalinists on Syria From this utterly preposterous headline, then Mr. Rachman reduces the War raging across ‘The Middle East’ to a public relations problem: A Hideous Black Comedy! Western politicians must somehow try to frame a … Continue reading →

In law and economics, the Coase theorem (pronounced /ˈkoʊs/) describes the economic efficiency of an economic allocation or outcome in the presence of externalities. The theorem states that if trade in an externality is possible and there are sufficiently low … Continue reading →

After the avalanche of Anti-Corbyn propaganda in the respectable bourgeois press, The Financial Times leading the highfalutin cadre, Mr. Corbyn has won. Even with the thoroughly colonized Party apparatus, by the powerful Blair clique, disqualifying 150,000 of it newest members. … Continue reading →

Headline: Generation Balls in UK politics already reeks of yesterday Sub-headline: Picture them roaming public life like ghosts, helping out without ever being central to anything Mr. Ganesh’s essay of September 23, 2016 is awash in bile and contempt for … Continue reading →

How can Macri be The Knight of Neo-Liberal Faith and Action when he and de Kirchner were both clients of Mossack Fonseca? Read this TLS review of The Panama Papers by Edward N. Luttwak. A passage worthy of quotation: If … Continue reading →

Ms. Slaughter begins her disappointing, even trivializing essay framed by part of the catechism of Neo-Liberalism  ‘the global market in education’. Education is civic concern with nothing to do with the worshipers of Market Discipline. The Charter School movement in … Continue reading →

The focus of the Erasmus essay is one chapter, ‘The Priest, the Sinner and the Non-Believer’ of Mr Tsoukalis’ book ‘In Defence of Europe’. Mr. Tsoukalis and his think tank ELIAMEP are not just advocates of the European Idea/Ideal, but … Continue reading →