Monthly Archives: January 2018

  Don’t call Mr. Bezos a ‘disrupter’! Capitalism is about profit at any cost , it is never about  self-congratulatory Neo-Liberal mendacious rhetorical posing.  Call him an opportunist like all other Capitalist. Mr. Bezos is, in his other guises, owner … Continue reading →

The foreshortened evolution of Financial Times propaganda:  The Rebellion Against the Elites to the Populist Menace frames Mr. Rachman latest essay,  intervention,  as Corporatist advocate/apologists, that continues to exploit the seemingly endless political irrationalism of Trump. Yet Trump, like his … Continue reading →

Never fear, Mr. Ganesh has never even approached books like the collection of essays published by Harvard University Press of the Cahiers du Cinema edited by Jim Hillerman,  What is Cinema 1 & 2 by Andre Bazin published by University … Continue reading →

As an American kid, who grew up in the 1950’s watching the ‘Wonderful World of Disney’ ,and its many iterations with my younger brothers and sisters, Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromet video collection was something I gave to my best … Continue reading →

Where is the self-proclaimed  ‘Wise Republican Elder’ @iamDavidFrum when we need him, to interpret Trump & Trumpism? The midwives of Trump created the possibility/actuality of a Trump & are now full of theories, that adroitly avoids confronting their own political … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

The Financial Times and its hirelings are politically smitten with Neo-Liberal Golden Boy Emmanuel Macron. In his essay of January 15, 2018, Mr. Ganesh reveals the central Macron conceit: Before he became president of France, he identified a hole in … Continue reading →

Just the first paragraph of Mr. Brooks January 11, 2018 essay exemplifies his methodology: Everybody agrees society is in a bad way, but what exactly is the main cause of the badness? Some people emphasize economic issues: The simultaneous concentration … Continue reading →

Mr. Douthat like David Brooks seem infatuated, for the political moment, by Patrick Deneen’s ‘Why Liberalism Failed‘. But Douthat introduces his latest essay with Steve Bannon, who manages to cultivate the look of a man just off a week long … Continue reading →