Monthly Archives: June 2018

The reader of Mr. Ganesh’s purely speculative ‘life report’ on the career of Mr. Franzen, which ends not with praise for Franzen the writer, but presents this author as an ‘anti-left crusader’, in sum, a ‘political elitist’. Not quite in … Continue reading →

The opening paragraphs of Mr. Divine’s political funeral oration for Anthony Kennedy is worthy of full quotation: The retirement of Anthony Kennedy is an obituary for conservatism in America. Kennedy’s pragmatic libertarianism — his belief in limited government, pluralism, moderation, … Continue reading →

Its no surprise that the Corporatist Press should outdo themselves in praise of Anthony Kennedy. Mr. Rosen’s credentials are stellar in the Neo-Liberal terms of Market Fetishism wedded to Academic status: Jeffrey Rosen is a contributing editor for The Atlantic. … Continue reading →

Peter Hitchens on ‘the noble failure’ of Thatcher The Milk Snatcher. The reader almost reaches the point of feeling sorry for the utterly disillusioned Mr. Hitchens! (If only Peter had the literary gifts that Christopher possessed.) Mr. Hitchens repeats, with … Continue reading →

‘ Former Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has hit out at Russian President Vladimir Putin, describing him as the leader of a “white supremacist and xenophobic movement”  which is designed to “weaken America’s traditional alliances and undermine democracy.” The former secretary of state … Continue reading →

Neo-Conservatism is about a ruthless bellicose Nationalism, and a coterie of Left Wing radicals at City College: Irving Kristol the paradigmatic case, who became bellicose Nationalists over political time.  Mr. Krauthammer was of another generation and the expounder of the … Continue reading →

Headline: The rise of a new generation of anti-Americans Sub-headline: Condemnations of the US are becoming routine — and may not end when Trump departs One can only imagine the Financial Times, of other eras,  and one of its hirelings opining … Continue reading →

Your series of tweets was informative as to your ‘Liberalism’. Damir Marusic & Rich Lowry set the argumentative parameters of the moral/political shame of the Trump separation of children from their parents? Call this the sadism of the Neo-Confederate/Originalist coterie, … Continue reading →

Read Ms. Dempsey’s impressive credentials here at the Carnegie Europe web site: http://carnegieeurope.eu/experts/693 That she is part of the Atlanticist coterie is easily obtained, even for the mildly curious. A link to the Atlantic Council’s web site: http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist Who else … Continue reading →

Chris Hedges quotes Mr. Debs, and one is taken with Debs honesty,forthrightness even his status  as a paradigmatic Socialist politician.  Not to speak of his bravery compared to today’s political opportunists.  Yet to quote that ‘Great American Philosopher’ Reinhold Niebuhr … Continue reading →