Monthly Archives: March 2021

Headline: The US cannot be choosy about its allies Sub-headline: The network of countries that worry about China are not all liberal paragons America began losing its ‘moral authority’, an inheritance of Wilsonian Idealism, when it’s ascendant manufactures of electronics … Continue reading →

Living in The United States of Amnesia I recognise all of Mr. Rachman’s arguments/talking points, so carefully collected, to make the greatest impact on the reader. In Mr. Rachman’s telling leads to the thought of how close to striking is … Continue reading →

Headline: America’s growing fixation on race Sub-headline: Conservatives and liberals increasingly view the world through the lens of group identity https://www.ft.com/content/0f5845e7-2e10-4f22-916f-c1c970131d34 The reader has to wonder about how long Mr. Luce has been ‘the US national editor and columnist at … Continue reading →

Reading Judith Wolfe’s essay, in the TLS March 19,2021, titled ‘Soul-searching; A philosophical attempt to make sense of the self’ Professor Wolfe begins her essay with a paraphrase of Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold: ‘hearing the long, withdrawing roar of … Continue reading →

The ‘radically unavailable president’ of the headline writers, Mr. Ganesh celebrates in the more sedate ‘the bolder stratagem of unavailability‘. Biden apologetics, in his telling looks away from the Blinken faux pas with the Chinese, meant to demonstrate ‘toughness’ ? Blinken … Continue reading →

The reader just has to wonder at Mr. Luce’s tincture of Pikettyism! Not the real article but a clever pastiche? For a devotee of Neo-Liberalism to ‘think’ in a counterintuitive key? The questions ramify! Two paragraphs stand out:  This was … Continue reading →

The headline and sub-headline only hint that The Financial Times and its reporter Benedict Mander ‘report’ on ‘midterm elections after VIP vaccines scandal’ , yet the opening paragraph features Alberto Fernández ‘speeding away to safety from stone-throwing protesters during a … Continue reading →

Anti-Chinese propaganda has become ubiquitous in the Corporate Media: Headline; Australia can teach the UK a lesson in Chinese wrath Sub-headline: London may have to learn the hard way that it cannot have its cake and eat it with Beijing … Continue reading →

Headline: Joe Biden’s quietly revolutionary first 100 days Sub-headline: US president’s opening spell has been the most productive and ego-free in recent memory The headline writers looked to Mr. Luce’s ‘opening spell’ comedy, for the sub-headline. Nothing said by Luce … Continue reading →

Does the present ‘Brave New World’, in the hands of Ugly Duckling Zuckerberg, and the Larry Summer’s trained ‘Lean In’ guru Sandberg make the reader a bit uneasy, or an even more extreme emotion? ‘The Tradition of The New’ described more … Continue reading →