Monthly Archives: July 2020

janan.ganesh@ft.com unmasks the presumptive successors to Trump. Old Socialist

That two books on Liberalism, not ‘liberalism’ as Mr. Ganesh would have it, have escaped his attention is no surprise, it might interfere with his political yarn spinning. Liberalism at Large:The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin Liberalism:A … Continue reading

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Neo-Con celebrates the New Cold War with China, via writer Liu Cixin. Political Observer comments

The reader is a bit puzzled by Ferguson’s reliance on his proximity to ‘The Great Man’, he is now at The Hoover Institution, where 1929 went to live, and conservative thought flourishes, and is the author of a hagiography of … Continue reading

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On the Lincoln Project. Political Observer…

Reading the Lincoln Project Manifesto in The New York Times is instructive, of more than this collection of carefully framed political cliches, by political technocrats, who make it their business to write evocative and high-sounding rhetoric for use in campaigns: … Continue reading

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Macron,Fillon & Sarkozy: two reports from The Financial Times. Old Socialist comments

What to think of Fillon’s conviction? The notorious French Thatcherite was a shameless embezzler!  Headline: Former French PM sentenced to jail for embezzlement Sub-headline: François Fillon found guilty over wife’s fake job as parliamentary aide François Fillon, the former French … Continue reading

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janan.ganesh@ft.com on American Decline & its reverberations. American Writer comments

Mr. Ganesh opens his collection of observations, prognostications, larded with the usual self-congratulation, framed by his own ‘grip on logical reasoning’,  with this paragraph: At its midpoint, 2020 is turning out to be one of the darkest years in the … Continue reading

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Political Observer on ending all aid to Israel!

The ‘Two State Solution’ is as dead as Freud’s ‘Science of Psychoanalysis’! Psychoanalysis has morphed into, has been re-imagined into a form of ‘Jewish Storytelling’ , or a Metaphysic , according the various factions, of its coterie of practitioners. Its … Continue reading

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@fromTGA on ‘one of those really dark days for liberty’, as seen from the Versailles Dining Room, of The Hoover Institution. Political Observer comments

As a once regular reader of Timothy Garton Ash, in the NYRB, e.g. ‘The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 as Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague’ and all his essays published in that once Left/Liberal tabloid, a vexing … Continue reading

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