Monthly Archives: July 2020

Translation of the whole thread, from the beginning: There are some “interesting” things in the RGN of June with a special file on policing. https://gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/crgn/Publications/Revue-de-la-gendarmerie-nationale/Revue-N-267 … Already the general objectives of doc. Globally GM have two problems: the increase of … Continue reading →

The third paragraph of Andy’s farewell letter, after the politic gestures, is an exercise of blame placing, at its most intellectually bloated: ‘A critical mass’!    ‘What has happened, I think, is relatively simple: A critical mass of the staff and … Continue reading →

The reader needn’t go any further into Mr. Barber’s review of Patrice Gueniffey’s book  Napoleon & de Gaulle to realize the political propinquity between author and reviewer: Rather, Gueniffey is lining up with those who fret that history is no … Continue reading →

After Mr. Ganesh’s July 10th’s comic meditation on Alaric the Goth and English ‘chippyness’ , that he posited ‘as potent a source of motivation as exists in life.’ , supplied by Douglas Boin’s book. https://www.ft.com/content/43e1d489-def7-422c-a8fb-00f4d9e11db9 Mr. Ganesh drew certain lessons, … Continue reading →

Pankaj Mishra is the one reason I subscribed to this publication! Without doubt a writer always worth reading, and contemplating, in the immediate retrospect. And as recollection. ‘Cancel Culture’ is the latest political fiction, confected by an utterly corrupt class … Continue reading →

For some reason I felt compelled the stop reading this book, last month : Chapter 6 Mysticism , Ontotheology, Anti modernism, on page 118. Even the reading of  the history of Heidegger’s thought can be a challenge to the readers … Continue reading →

Andy Divine praises Justice Roberts, larded with toxic self-congratulation : The Wisdom of the Roberts Court…Yes, this means that almost all employers can be legally punished if they discriminate against gay, lesbian, and trans people, but employers whose business is … Continue reading →

On the why of the rise of the ‘nativist government’ in Mitteleuropa read ‘Europe Since 1989’ by Phillipp Ther. Chapter 4. Getting on the Neoliberal Bandwagon and Chapter 5. Second-Wave Neoliberalism. These countries rejected any form, of what they considered … Continue reading →

What an opening paragraph, brimming with Reagan/Thatcher nostalgia, such is the moral/political desperation of Mr. Luce for a ‘beginning’ to  his political moralizing. It takes effort to recapture how Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s hastened the demise … Continue reading →

What a powerful opening paragraph , or is it just hyperbole in high gear? On first reading, approaching the breathtaking.  Bravo!   ‘ The shape, direction, and force of the next Republican vector is the next great question of political physics. … Continue reading →