Monthly Archives: June 2019

Mr. Stephens @soledadobrien has your number! But the paraphrase of Sen. Dirksen… , some of us watched ‘The Ev & Charley Show’ on network news, back in the day! ‘Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, authors of ‘The Coddling of the … Continue reading →

Headline: Globalisation is dead and we need to invent a new world order Sub-headline: A book excerpt and interview with Michael O’Sullivan, author of “The Levelling” … Mr O’Sullivan: Globalisation is already behind us. We should say goodbye to it … Continue reading →

Sen.Harris was too eager to play the respectability game with sclerotic Biden, at least until she could deliver the ‘I was that girl’ coup de grace about ‘busing’! Who can forget this Harris nonpareil: ‘Sitting onstage during the American Israel … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh frames his essay on Joe Biden with the Shakespeare tragedy Romeo and Juliet and the ‘“ancient grudge” between the Montagues and the Capulets.’ Garnished with his jejune observations, masquerading as telling insights on ‘the human condition’. Posh Boy … Continue reading →

Headline: Brexit is an idea for a bygone era Sub-headline: Global Britain assumes a world that is moving towards free trade, rather than against it Look around the world. What appear to be the biggest potential threats? Strategists worry about … Continue reading →

Headline: Save me from the tyranny of choice Sub-headline:In a world of cacophonous information, the absence of it is life-improving Here is the key paragraph of Mr. Ganesh latest feuilleton: Good. If they went yet further, and did not tell … Continue reading →

I’ll bypass the first two installments of the Mr. Divine’s encyclical of June 21, 2019: The Next Step for Gay Pride The Trump Code I’ll just read this next segment of moral shaming with which Andy confronts his readers: The … Continue reading →

In the first five paragraphs of his essay Mr. Ganesh reminds me of almost any James Pinkerton column I read, when he was a columnist on the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times! Complete with Mr. Pinkerton’s hysterical obsession … Continue reading →

It is way past time to purge from the Democratic Party the ‘New Democrats’ i.e. the Neo -Liberals who brought us Welfare Reform, Prison Reform, awash in political euphemisms, and the ultimate expressions their Reaganite Agenda Gramm-Leach-Bliley, that repealed Glass-Steagall! … Continue reading →

When this essay first appeared it’s headline offered Trump as a political Svengali, an evil creature of his own making. But the editors of this magazine have toned down the political hysterics, in the interest of political verisimilitude? ‘The Apprentice’ … Continue reading →