Monthly Archives: December 2018

Headline: Don’t mourn bohemia — it’s everywhere now Sub-headline: We think of offbeat enclaves as a thing of the past. But bohemia isn’t gone, it’s just permeated the whole of city life Mr. Ganesh resumes his rightful place as feuilletonist … Continue reading →

Stephen Kotkin voices a telling critique of Canadian Frontiersman & full time political/ cultural hysteric Jordan Peterson in the TLS: (The clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson contributes a new  twelve-page foreword excoriating Marxism, which in its banalities adds nothing to … Continue reading →

There are in Mr. Ganesh’s latest political feuilleton some serio-comic moments. His perpetual political misapprehension, or is it a cultivated ignorance? that  deserve highlighting , my focus will be as selective as Mr. Ganesh’s! “Turn out the lights when Mattis … Continue reading →

Headline: Putin poses a bigger threat than populism We are living in momentous times. The key phenomena of 2016 and 2017 continued to dominate 2018: Brexit and Donald Trump. This was not just because of their own unpredictability and international … Continue reading →

‘The Masters of The Universe’ and their Neo-Liberal Swindle has destroyed  both the Middle & Lowers Classes in America! But at The New York Times all is well! Merry Christmas, Almost Marx Merry Christmas, Almost Marx

Headline: The crisis of modern liberalism is down to market forces Sub-headline: Liberals are often led astray by their addiction to macroeconomic variables such as GDP Mr. Münchau’s  rhetorical/political  landscape is teeming with ideas, concepts and actors: Wolfgang Kartte : … Continue reading →

The Party of War is made up of Republicans and New Democrats: the prospect of something like dismantling just a portion of the military edifice erected to fight ‘The War on Terror’ or just call it ‘America’s Thirty Years War’ … Continue reading →

From the Versailles Grand Dining Room of the Hoover Institution, comes this compelling readable  Year End Roundup from the Niall Ferguson, some irresistible  highlights, the first is ,well , a nonpareil of the trivial, yet signifies one of the many … Continue reading →

Here are the first two paragraphs of Mr. Divine’s latest political encyclical titled ‘The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War’ The question before us is a relatively simple one: What would be the criteria for removing our remaining … Continue reading →

Headline: Where is San Francisco’s Bonfire of the Vanities? Sub-headline: The city is home to the biggest story in US commerce — yet the tech boom does not yet have its Tom Wolfe Who but feuilletonist Janan Ganesh would celebrate … Continue reading →