Monthly Archives: April 2017

‘It is easy for foreigners to read imperial nostalgia into something much more parochial. The terminal point of empire is introspection, not a restless desire to do it all over again. Introspection is bad enough but the British cannot be … Continue reading →

http://www.nationalreview.com/author/rich-lowry Political Cynic      

The reader need not depend on The Financial Times for a defense of America’s Wars of Empire. The New York Times has published Sen. Tom Cotton’s essay on the subject, that repeats the highfalutin shibboleths of ‘Wilsonian Idealism’, with far … Continue reading →

This whole Antisemitism Crisis has been invented by New Labour’s powerful allies like Jonathan Freedland. Who turned the posting of an editorial cartoon into an indictable crime, against bourgeois political respectability. In this shaky political melodrama Freedland plays a modern … Continue reading →

@Quietly Waiting The very existence of the American Political/Legal Romanticism, dubbed The Federalist Society, is proof that the Brown I and II Supreme Court cases were the precipitating legal events, that legitimized this radical political nostalgia for a Pre-Civil War … Continue reading →

The Financial Times has closed the comments section to Mr. Haass’ latest essay on the Syrian bombing: Mr. Haass: In the summer of 2013 the Syrian government employed chemical weapons against its own civilians, killing an estimated 1,500 men, women … Continue reading →

Headline: Beware of the return of the Clinton dynasty Sub-headline: A public revival would blunt Democratic attacks on the Trump presidency Mr. Luce and the headline writers at the Financial Times have produced a simulacrum of Journalism. Contrary to Luce … Continue reading →

It is a surprise that Mr. Ganesh begins his latest essay, that posits the notion that angry votes are ‘nostalgic for paternalist government’ with the observations of Saul Bellow and his attack on FDR, as a member of the now … Continue reading →

Is there noting so dependable than Mr. Rachman’s speculation, and almost anguish, over the question of Brexit? Or the fact that he is a reliable member of the apologists for the E.U., as the historical precursor of the now utterly … Continue reading →