Monthly Archives: January 2020

There is no more appropriate place for Edward Luce than ‘The Swamp’ ! He supplies the usual ‘horse race’ handicapping of the approaching Iowa Primary as if by wrote, its a well traveled rhetorical path for Corporate Media ‘reporters’ . … Continue reading →

As as an accomplished, indeed a querulous practitioner of the feuilleton, for the uninitiated a definition : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuilleton. Mr Ganesh’s penchant for Pop Culture references is matter of his immersion in the vicissitudes of that cultural/political product: Christian Bale’s performance … Continue reading →

After finishing Domenico Losudro’s  Liberalism : A Counter-History , which is a history and polemic against a nihilistic political/civic mythology: and its perpetrators of colonialism, slavery,the indentured servitude of the ‘lower orders’, not to speak of the genocide against native … Continue reading →

@Freakus Thank you for your comment. But @Buckley’s Ghost has provided a reply. Its last sentence seems to lack a certain decorum, but provides a quote from  Obama, or at least provide a usable paraphrase. Your definition of the ‘marginal … Continue reading →

Headline: America is still waiting for a true populist Sub-headline: The marginal voter wants universal healthcare and higher taxes, but also tighter borders Mr. Ganesh is a bit late in posting  his Anti-Sanders essay. although not quite as crude, not … Continue reading →

‘Sam Leith is literary editor of The Spectator’ what better credential for this hatched-job on Harry ? Its shameless a-historicism, a monument to the publishers David and Frederick Barclay commitment to the Royals, as the subject of a necessary Feudal … Continue reading →

In a week in which Rich Lowry, editor of National Review opined on Bernie Sanders: Headline: Bernie Is Not Normal … Sanders does indeed have his charms. He’s sincere, consistent, and inarguably himself. He now has a step on frenemy … Continue reading →

I always imagine Andy Divine as Waldo Lydecker in his bath, typing his latest column, while being interviewed by detective Mark McPherson, in that Preminger Hollywood kitsch, Laura! Preminger never made another ‘film’ that matched its melodramatic excesses. Waldo as … Continue reading →

Headline: Beware Trump’s admiration for Putin, Xi and Erdogan Sub-headline: The US president has made little attempt to hide his respect for strongman leaders The fate of ‘The West’ was sealed with the ascendancy of Thatcher and Reagan, that gave … Continue reading →

Mr. Ferguson’s bellicosity is unslakable, and never a surprise. The Qassem Soleimani murder forces Ferguson to  resort to Walter Russel Mead’s Wall Street Journal celebration of ‘Jacksonian foreign policy’. And his ‘Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed … Continue reading →