Monthly Archives: May 2017

Of the three ‘policy technocrats’ that Mr. Luce mentions in his essay on Zbigniew Brzezinski: Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and George Shultz, only Mr. Shultz had any real combat experience, as Mr. Scowcroft was a career military bureaucrat. Mr. Brzezinski’s … Continue reading →

When he ran to be US president in 1968, Robert Kennedy questioned whether gross national product could measure American greatness while it counted napalm, cigarette advertisements, environmental ruin, “special locks for our doors and the jails for people who break … Continue reading →

To witness a suicide bombing up close is to understand, at its etymological root, the meaning of the word “carnage.” A bomb packed with nails, ball bearings and metal scraps — the sort that Salman Abedi detonated in Manchester on … Continue reading →

The Western Political Melodrama is brought into focus by the Peronist Trump! Merkel simply brings to the fore the fact that Europe must defend itself, but against whom. The Myth of Russian Revanchism is growing old but the NATO,EU murderous … Continue reading →

Two things in this world will remain political/economic constants: Think Tank Apologists for an utterly failed Neo-Liberalism, even in its etiolated version advocated by Macron. And the ‘nihilistic chatter’ of twitter bottom feeders like myself , with some help from … Continue reading →

What the political present demands is more apologetic chatter from a Think Tank employee, who identifies as ‘Progressive’ while actually being a Neo-Liberal, in its more diluted form. For the full story on the Policy Network and its commitment to … Continue reading →

A co-founder of an investment firm, Nicolas Colin, shall lead us out out of the darkness of the Welfare State, and into The Radiant Future of the Entrepreneurial State? Aided by a partial quote from from Robert Shiller: This was envisioned in … Continue reading →

Nothing quite prepares the reader for this declaration by Mr. Habermas: Jürgen Habermas: I have been entrusted with the honour of saying a few introductory words about the subject of our conversation between our distinguished guest Emmanuel Macron and Sigmar … Continue reading →

The publication of ‘After Piketty:The Agenda for Economics and Inequality’ gives another opportunity for the Oxbridgers at The Economist to exercise their contempt of the Economic Apostate Piketty. Its not redolent of Oakshott’s contempt of anything resembling Social Democracy, but … Continue reading →

A prominent ally of Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that the special counsel appointed to investigate alleged links between the president’s aides and Russia should instead focus on the murder last year of a young Democratic staffer, Seth Rich, which … Continue reading →