Monthly Archives: February 2018

The reader marvels at Andy Divine’s latest essay , after some introductory remarks, a commentary on a ‘deeper American story’ that segues into this description of America’s Opioid Crisis: The scale and darkness of this phenomenon is a sign of … Continue reading →

Melani McAlister doesn’t just recite the Party Line on Billy Graham, she constructs an apologetic for this Old Time Religion Entrepreneur, whose religion and politics were equally banal and utterly conformist Billy Graham, who died Wednesday at the age of … Continue reading →

Neo-Liberal ‘Reformer’ Macri vs Union Boss Hugo Moyano, or the Oligarchs are about to collide with the Porteños, might be a more apt description for this ‘news report’ by Mr. Mander. The 24 hour strike advocated by this ‘Union Boss’ … Continue reading →

Mr. Andrei Soldatov has something to sell, an ‘analyst’ who shares the prejudices of The Financial Times editors, his ‘expertise’ on Russian skullduggery: ‘The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries’. The hyperbolic title … Continue reading →

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was once portrayed in the Western Press as a mad man, for his statements awash in his cultivated ideological/historical ignorance of the Holocaust, not to speak of his belief in the 12th Imam, as signs of his irrationalism. … Continue reading →

Headline: Uber chief executive says group about more than car transport Sub-headline: Dara Khosrowshahi offers expanded vision by which company will be the Amazon of rides Uber and it’s latest Technocrat, Dara Khosrowshahi have a vision: the complete co-option of states and … Continue reading →

The Daily Beast introduces Mr. Brink’s essay by means of an annoyingly vulgar photo montage, first grab the readership’s attention with a telling bit of  visual propaganda! before the reader even engages with Mr. Lindsey’s  advocacy for  ‘A Free Market … Continue reading →

Headline: US stocks suffer one of worst weeks since financial crisis Key Points: S&P 500 closes up 1.5 per cent for 5.2 per cent weekly decline FTSE All-World down 6.2 per cent this week and Eurofirst 300 index down 7.2 … Continue reading →

Mr. Divine is the natural inheritor of the mantle of Staussian Alan Bloom in his ‘The Closing of the American Mind’ . Note that Starussianism is defined by a mendacious re-reading of Philosophical History.  Students are the target of both … Continue reading →

Mr. Stephens, provisionally adopting the role of Dr. Pangloss, in his latest screed, attempts to shame not just ‘the environmental left’ but ‘environmental alarmists’ as an expression of his faith in ‘homo economicus’ : who can fix anything, even the … Continue reading →