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Monthly Archives: July 2020
On The Futurism of Edward Luce & Bret Stephens. Political Observer Comments
Futurism is now in vogue, as a tool for Pundits to enliven their jejune commentaries, an ersatz touchstone predicated on the imagination, rather than demonstrable fact. Read Bret Stephens’ latest New York Times essay, as a necessary proof of the … Continue reading
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Neo-Con Bret Stephens’ ‘Futurism’ is about a strategic re-write of the Political Present. Old Socialist comments
Headline:What Will a Post-Trump G.O.P. Look Like? Sub-headline: And consider, what will it take for the Republican Party to begin to heal itself? Whenever Mr. Stephens predicts the political future, its a signal, that he hasn’t got too much to … Continue reading
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@FT Trump,NATO and European Self-emancipation. Philosophical Apprentice comments
Headline:US to pull nearly 12,000 troops out of Germany Sub-headline: Trump administration’s move set to exacerbate tensions within Nato … But critics have warned US withdrawal would undermine a strong symbol of Washington’s commitment to its European allies and embolden … Continue reading
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@PeterBeinart clearly demonstrates that he is a practitioner of ‘Patriarchal Attitudes’. Queer Atheist comments
… ‘Given Mr. Trump’s epic blunders, inoffensiveness may be enough to propel the former vice president to the White House. But it’s a lot easier to be inoffensive when you’re a man.’ Eva Figes’ book was published in 1970: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-18207-7 … Continue reading
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Steph Umbert’s vision of America’s political future. Philosophical Apprentice comments
Steph Umbert is a new name in the Neo-Conservative coterie , at least to me, presents his ‘vision of the future’ garishly decorated, with the most bizarre iteration about the Post-Modern, since the American Intellectual Provincials ,George F. Will and … Continue reading
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@EdwardGLuce on Fighting The New Cold War on the Second Front of Trumpology. Old Socialist comments
Headline: Donald Trump’s little green men Sub-headline: US president wants to ignite a cultural war to save his re-election campaign Here is Mr. Luce’s clumsy attempt to make a usable political amalgam of Putin The Terrible/The New Cold War and Trump. … Continue reading
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@FT My reply to Chocoleibnitz.
You must grant, that Mr. Drost, doesn’t just know what the reactionary coterie’s of political actors, within both the Republican and New Democrat parties, are not thinking, because that endeavor might just trigger an inconvenient moral/ethical impulse, while strategizing for … Continue reading
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@FT The New Cold War is a Profit Center. Old Socialist comments
The New Cold War held aloft by a 55 page ‘report’ , with very impressive coterie, of the members in good standing, of the British National Security State. Instead of something even resembling ‘evidence’ ! In sum, a ‘Bill Attainder’ … Continue reading
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Janan Ganesh on Joe Biden’s ‘deceptive radicalism’. Old Socialist expresses his scorn
The latest bizarre twist, in this election year, is that Republican John Kasich will speak at the Democratic Convention. He being part of the ‘Never Trumper’ contingent. This coterie somehow finds Joe Biden, even in his state of advanced cogitative … Continue reading
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Philosophical Apprentice on ‘The Tyranny Of Tenderness’
Headline:The Tyranny Of Tenderness Sub-headline: A warning from Walker Percy: well-intentioned but ill-considered solutions will do more harm than good. The Bearers of White Privilege confront Black Lives Matter with a version of an ‘Ersatz Sociology’ , via Walker Percy … Continue reading
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