Monthly Archives: March 2017

Mr. Ignatieff reviews Mr Pankaj Mishra’s latest book ‘Age of Anger: A History of the Present’. Some quotations from this review reflects both Mr. Ignatieff’s elite western prejudices and his status as apologist, in fact as agent for  Western Imperialism/Capitalism. … Continue reading →

Will the idea and practice of the EU, a cartel with the trappings of democracy: the Jean Monnet brainchild with the help from Americans, be able to survive without the continuing support of the IMF? Trump’s Budget is just another … Continue reading →

Mr. Frum is so myopic as to have missed this sentence in his own essay! ‘Presidential power is never absolute, of course. It’s always subject to the Constitution.’ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/the-hawaii-judge-set-a-dangerous-precedent/519828/ Mr. Frum demonstrates with ease the utter bankruptcy of the Republican … Continue reading →

The regular reader of Mr. Luce’s essays is taken aback at his sounding just like a New Democrat, or what the Financial Times might laughingly call ‘The Left’! The reader need only go to the source of Clinton Care, Romney … Continue reading →

What is wrong with this ‘Newspaper’ and ‘reporter’ Ben McLannahan ? A purely rhetorical question.There already exists a bill cosponsored by Elizabeth Warren and John McCain as reported by The Hill in 2015, a Glass-Steagall for the 21st Century : … Continue reading →

As a reader who has just come from Mr. Ganesh’s ‘Buyer’s remorse in the sexual revolution: The guardians of the New Prurience tend to be young and avowedly progressive’ which was a milestone in the construction of ‘The Ganesh Enemies … Continue reading →

The reader might just ask: what was Mr. Ganesh’s latest feuilleton about? The staff at The Financial Times photo archive, could only find a 1967 Getty photo, that looked like a relic from the ‘Swinging Sixties’: recall Antonioni’s Blowup? A … Continue reading →

‘… I think it’s fairly certain that he and other members of the family were genetically predisposed to a fairly severe form of Asperger’s syndrome,…’ Dr. Lindqvist thank you for your comment. Congratulations are in order: you intuit/diagnose, across time … Continue reading →

The reader has to admit that Mr. Luce,as always, has an ‘elite’ view of the American Political landscape: he accepts the political feints of President Trump as part of a long term strategy, instead of what they might be, sewing … Continue reading →

Are these the rules that Ms. Slaughter uses to treat her underlings? Like her secretary or the lowly word processor? What Ms. Slaughter prescribes is for meetings at a certain corporate level. Because her series of steps takes valuable time … Continue reading →