Monthly Archives: November 2016

Just finished Chapter 4, titled ‘Splitting the Difference: Habermas’s Critique of Derrida’ by David Couzens Hoy, in this collection of essays. Clarity, insights and beautifully written. I’ve read his The Time of Our Lives : A Critical History of Temporality … Continue reading →

To call Obama a ‘liberal technocrat’ when he is most assuredly an unimaginative Neo-Liberal, and to utter this maladroit sentence: ‘When Vladimir Putin’s Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, John Kerry, the outgoing secretary of state, said: “You just don’t in … Continue reading →

I missed my favorite Neo-Con/New Cold Warrior Anne Applebaum’s November 9,2016 Washington Post commentary on the Trump election. She blocked me from following her twitter account, but her columns are fair game. Here is a telling excerpt from that essay, … Continue reading →

That ‘Free Market Revolutionary’ Mr. Fillon is giving the editors at The Financial Times the jitters, not because he favors ‘shock’ and ‘speed’, not just an echo of Marinetti but a quotation from that notorious  Futurist/Fascist.That rarest of political creatures … Continue reading →

Mr Fillon as Thatcherite, apres la lettre, and Catholic homophobe. The reader hasn’t come across such an improbable hybrid, that almost deforms the idea/practice of the dialectic,  since the publication of ‘French Philosophy of the Sixties, An Essay on Antihumanism’ … Continue reading →

It seems that Mr. Leith has left no highfalutin literary reference unused in his search for some applicable frame for President Obama, near the end of his second term: Homer, Milton and at its end Sophocles. Call this the a … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh opens his latest essay using the subjunctive mood of, ‘if only the left understood class as Kinsey understood sex.’ The Kinsey Reports were published in 1948 (Male) and 1953 (Female), and posited the idea of a ‘sexual continuum’ … Continue reading →

Look at the surfeit of information available to the the reader of the Financial Times regarding French politics and its current political actors: Le Pen, Sarkozy,Fillon, Juppé : Headline: Marine Le Pen lays out radical vision to govern France Sub-headline: National … Continue reading →

Has the sun finally set on the American Empire? Or just a momentary lull in what? The reader looks to Mr. Kagan’s repetition of three sets of metaphors repeated with necessary variations on the themes: return to normalcy shouldering burden … Continue reading →

Demetri Sevastopulo offers some valuable insights into Flynn’s surprising political beliefs about abortion and Gay Marriage. Yet the insights offered about Flynn that are telling, in connection with his management style, and his belief that his opinion on military matters, … Continue reading →