Monthly Archives: April 2023

Philosophical Apprentice comments. I will begin with a link to my January 4, 2019 essay: Phillips ‘biography’ is not just flawed, but is an incompetent apologetic for Freud: Phillips is not just inconsistent, but just sloppy from chapter to chapter … Continue reading →

Political Cynic wonders why and how this was published by The Paper of Record! Note how Stephens opens his essay: In the summer of 2011, Rupert Murdoch stopped by my small office at The Wall Street Journal, where I was … Continue reading →

American Writer comments. Being an American Hick, I can only think that Robert Colvile’s essays on British Politics, reminds me of those BBC adaptations of Anthony Trollope’s Pallisers Novels. Though I read a part of ‘Vivian Grey’, until he left England … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. Neo-Con Bret Stephens attacks ‘the progressive left’ that all purpose epithet, as a place holder for actual thought. The use of the ‘lower case’ is an act of political diminution, in sum shaming! Mr. Stephens provides two narratives of the Adam … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. As well argued as it is, Mr. Robin essay fails to look at the fact that, if I have the cash, to make a donation to the Supreme Court ‘charity’, I can purchase an audience with a … Continue reading →

Old Socialist engages in ‘waste management’. @RColvile opens with these two paragraphs: It is one of the most extraordinary statistics in British politics. Unless Rishi Sunak hurries to the polls, the next election will take place a full 50 years … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Macron has shown something resembling political independence from the American Hegemon ? The Reader might look to the Full Scale Rebellion against Macron’s raising the Retirement Age, was it a political mistake to bypass the Senate? as part of … Continue reading →

Queer Atheist confronts an ‘Old World Thinker’. Headline: Militant unions thrive in a weaker society Sub-headline: Extremism is increasing as economic and political objectives merge with the culture wars https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/militant-unions-thrive-in-a-weaker-society-5nh536ddv Let me begin with these paragraphs steeped in political paranoia: … Continue reading →

Myra Breckinridge reads selected portions… Son of Wm. F. Buckley Jr. is now billed as a ‘a novelist and a humorist’ : what reader can forget ‘Thank You for Smoking’ of 1994? The opening paragraphs of his latest ‘essay’ doesn’t demonstrate ‘humor’, but untalented chatter, … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. The Reader wonders where Ms. Tonnelier, was during all the ‘excitement’ , or even the promise of Neo-Liberalism, Macron Style! Framed as the highfalutin ‘Jupertarian Politics’. Tonnelier expresses her disillusionment, of a kind. Macronism was, is, and will always be, about … Continue reading →