Monthly Archives: September 2017

You have to give Mr. Carter credit for taking over the aging, and reportedly financially strapped Hollywood institution of Swifty Lazar’s annual Oscar Party, and making it his own. Although some of the Old Guard thought him an interloper, the … Continue reading →

@Kitanomaru In your otherwise well argued reply, you seemed to have missed something:  ‘The current Conservative leadership is so incompetent, spineless and self-serving that they have made a return to a 1970’s style planned economy under Corbyn look like a … Continue reading →

Is Mr. Ganesh playing Tiresias or Cassandra in this episode of The Brexit Melodrama? I’ll assume that it is Tiresias, because Cassandra was fated to never to be believed. Because this is The Financial Times, I’m sure that Mr. Ganesh’s … Continue reading →

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n14/on-brexit/where-are-we-now StephenKMackSD  

Stephen54321, Thank you for your comment. At least know that I was alive and well when the Weather Underground and the Symbionese Liberation Army had the spotlight. But please don’t forget the shared hysteria mongering of respectable bourgeois pundits and … Continue reading →

@Paris azawak @StephenKMackSD Thank you for your thought provoking comment. To paraphrase Blanche Dubois, I rely on the arguments of my critics. Why will Macron’s ‘Jupertarian Politics’ be different than other forms of authoritarian rule? If you read Ms. Chassany essay … Continue reading →