Monthly Archives: February 2023

Old Socialist resorts to minimalism! I’ll not waste much time on Neo-Con Ghoul Bret Stephens selective compassion: the last two paragraphs are enough melodrama, in which he plays the Lead Role. Even in the age of Ukraine and other disasters, … Continue reading →

Almost Marx … Here is the version of Mr. Douthat’s commentary on Biden’s ‘State of The Union’ address featured on the NYT front page: The actual column framing: Like Joe Biden, Mr. Douthat is a political hack/opportunist, whose latest political iteration is … Continue reading →

A writer for Politico, Clair Berlinsky of ‘The Cosmopolitan Globalist’, that resembles a ill-conceived blog, rather than a ‘Newspaper’ opines on: Her twitter page features evocatively gauzy ‘glamor shots’ of its author: Ms. Belinsky writes as if she were a Eurocrat on a Public … Continue reading →

Political Cynic contemplates @RColvile moral/political… After last week’s cri de coeur : Paying £250,000 a year for a child in care means nothing if we don’t show them love  Robert Colvile  Sunday January 29 2023, 12.01am GMT, The Sunday Times  … Continue reading →

_______________________________________________________________________________ It’s hard to be patient with Timothy Garton-Ash. Old Socialist makes his way through his ‘The future of liberalism’ stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 17, 2020 The first two paragraphs on Mr. Garton-Ash’s essay are … Writers have interpreted the failings of … Continue reading →

Almost Marx … The Reader isn’t quite prepared, for Adam Tooze, in his Financial Times streamlined iteration. Those New Statesman essays, have been miniaturized for those busy Capitalist Technos? Those majestic paragraphs are … Call it a collection of ideas, … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. Mr. Stephens is like his fellow Neo-Cons: David Frum, Bill Kristol and David Brooks. They have an appetite for War, yet have no actual experience, of what being a soldier is like, not to speak of a … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. The title of this polemic should be: ‘The Economist Shames Goldman Sachs , yet : Leaders | Goldman sags Headline: The humbling of Goldman Sachs Sub-headline: The struggle to reinvent a firm trapped by its own mythology https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/01/26/the-humbling-of-goldman-sachs Compare this … Continue reading →