Monthly Archives: June 2023

Political Cynic … . The composed Headline, that reads in part ‘Party like it’s 1917’ the maladroit framing, expresses a dull-witted attempt to shanghai Prince’s 1999 best selling Pop Record? call it at best pathetic. Or an attempt to reach a generation of … Continue reading →

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Political Cynic as Political Archeologist. Here is Joan Walsh’s essay from 2002 on Nader’s book “Crashing the Party” that gets lost in her logorrhea. Headline: The (non-)confessions of St. Ralph Sub-headline: Ralph Nader’s new book makes it painfully clear that … Continue reading →

Political Cynic comments. Here is a portion of The Economist essay of June 24, 2023: This appears to be one of The Economists Readymades, hastily stitched up for the occasion. Europe | Rebellion in Russia  The Wagner Group halts its march on Moscow  Vladimir Putin … Continue reading →

Political Observer looks at The Economist’s Past, to predict its… The Reader of The Economist confronts the not so underlying tone of political moralizing. Ukraine’s war is raging on two fronts. On the 1,000km battlefront its armies are attacking the … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. After this collection of David Cameron’s successors: Teresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, Adrian Wooldridge, in the role of ‘Bagehot’ announces: Britain | Bagehot Headline : Reading the death certificate on Boris Johnson’s political career … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. Who can forget that team of Adrian Wooldridge and John Micklethwait that birthed such best sellers: ‘The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea’, of 2005, ‘God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the … Continue reading →

Political Cynic comments. JUN 16, 2023 I won’t waste The Readers valuable time: I’ll just quote from Mr. Lowry’s essay in Politico of June 15, 2023: Headline: Opinion | A Trump Pardon Could Drain Poison from the System Sub-headline: If … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. JUN 15, 2023 What makes Lesley Chamberlain ‘indispensable’? Begin with her June 2, 2023 essay in the TLS: Headline: A perverted age Sub-headline: The downfall of Weimar’s licentious aesthetes Chamberlain reviews two books: February 1933: The Winter of … Continue reading →

Old Socialist’s long quotation from ‘Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist’ by Alexander Zevin provides long overdue historical context! JUN 12, 2023 The Economist reads | The anti-imperialists strike back What to read to understand imperialism and colonialism. … Continue reading →