Monthly Archives: April 2017

I found Sudhir Hazareesingh’s essay insightful, informative and learned, while not as valuable as his Spiked interview: http://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-review/article/the-french-mind/19507#.WPoToWe1vIW Mr. Hazareesingh’s repeating of the notion that Macron is, somehow, ‘Progressive’ puts my estimate of his expertise on the French political/historical/philosophical panorama  … Continue reading →

@L The particulars on StephenKMackSD: 71 year old queer white male, born and came of age in Southern California, attended Public Schools, Compton College and Long Beach State College in the 70’s. I have, since I dropped out of High … Continue reading →

It has been almost two years since the rise of Corbyn, I recall that at The Economist, the once sister publication of The Financial Times, featured as illustration to an essay about Corbyn, using an old Social Realist painting of … Continue reading →

Headline: Theresa May can now secure her mandate on Europe Sub-headline: Hopes of a reversal or dilution of last year’s referendum are definitively dashed ‘Seven Weeks to Victory’ should be the headline of this essay, when has Tory Hubris been … Continue reading →

Following in the footsteps of David Cameron, Teresa May calls for a vote on ‘advice’ from Rovian political strategist Lynton Crosby. Based on her fealty to the democratic process? Are the Tories capable of making a bad bet followed by another? Or … Continue reading →

It’s been sometime since I’ve read Mr. Sullivan, yet I still recall his days at The New York Observer, where he used his regular column to foment War Hysteria after 9/11. And to attack anyone who dared deviate from his … Continue reading →

The perpetual intellectual obfuscation, here at The Financial Times, is again striking, although the idea of a ‘liberal elite’ remains a central dogma of their Party Line.There is no ‘liberal elite’,there is only the utterly disreputable, not to speak of … Continue reading →

In his latest essay at The Daily Beast, M. Lévy pronounces, not on the danger of populist Le Pen, but on the danger of Leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Perhaps pronounces is the wrong descriptor. M. Lévy’s essay reads as if it were … Continue reading →

Here is the central conceit of Mr. Kuper’s essay: Almost all the refugees I’ve met since 2015 want to work their backsides off in exchange for the life that the laziest westerner regards as his birthright —… Not to take … Continue reading →

Donald Trump has done the right thing at last. Syria’s agony will not soon end, but after years of global hand-wringing the US has finally taken a stand for basic norms of humanity and morality. Calculation of certain risks versus … Continue reading →