Monthly Archives: December 2018

Headline:Democracies Are Fighting for Their Lives Sub-headline: Can they save themselves? The Headline writers of National Interest cultivate hysteria with their headline and sub-headline. Like Mr. Fukuyama before him,  Mr. Moeller frames his polemic with a paraphrase from a philosopher , … Continue reading →

Voter Suppression was institutionalized by Shelby County v. Holder, cobbled together by the Roberts/Scalia duo of Neo-Confederate/Originalists, under the rubric of ‘things have changed’ a jurisprudental metaphor, eviscerated by Ginsberg in her empirically based   defense of  the ‘pre-clearance clause‘. … Continue reading →

When you think that America’s ‘Academic Intellectual Class’, has hit rock- bottom- think of ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ , a more sophisticated version of what that officious Neo-Con, not to speak of self-appointed wise Platonic Guardian,  Alan Bloom … Continue reading →

Here is a helpful link to a Financial Times Lexicon  on Quantitative Easing and a portion of that entry: Central banks normally set the price of money using official interest rates to regulate the economy. These interest rates radiate out … Continue reading →

Headline: A humbler Emmanuel Macron needs to relaunch his agenda Sub-headline: Crisis over the French president’s reforms is a concern for all of Europe Macron in neither ‘humbler’ –imagine a humble enarque? , nor  does he need to ‘relaunch his … Continue reading →

Mr. Rachman’s little melodrama starring the ‘wounded’ Macron could not qualify for the Spelling-Goldberg treatment on American Network Television, such is its weakness in terms of dramatic kitsch. Forget the stunning fact that in the final election 36.5% of voters … Continue reading →

Place this under the category  schadenfreude: M. 37% is not just an utterly clueless enarque, but an authoritarian under the dull-witted propaganda of ‘Jupertarian Politics’! ‘The Paris Police’ are ,in fact, under the command of M.37%, is an attempt to … Continue reading →

Thank you for your comment. Aside from the self-congratulation that suffuses your reply, there isn’t anything like convincing argument in the face of the inconvenient evidence: In Brazil, Major New Corruption Scandals Engulf the Faction that Impeached Dilma In Brazil, … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh is a gifted stylist, in this paragraph that seems too steeped in the present rhetorical poverty, he still manages to almost ensorcell. It is the preamble to not just  a meditation on ‘Extremism’ but a homily. Experience of … Continue reading →

Is this the beginning of the end of M.37%’s ersatz ‘Jupertarian Revolution‘?  He is NOT de Gaulle, although this Neo-Liberal poser, whose unslakable egotism is writing himself into French history! The protagonists in this melodrama: the Sophisticated City Dwellers vs … Continue reading →