Monthly Archives: July 2023

Old Socialist comments. As a preface to my comment: The Reader, as always, confronts the Stalinist Erasure of 2016: after the resignation of David Cameron precipitated by the Brexit vote, the rise of Mrs. May, the defamation of Jeremy Corbyn … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Mr. Wooldridge’s essay about Sunak is awash in political cynicism? its a convenient posture, that almost mimics critical thinking, under a heavy veneer of the ersatz. Note that Wooldridge ‘shows’ Sunak in his various guises in the first three … Continue reading →

The Political Toxin of Jean Monnet’s Coal and Steel Cartel. @michelleinbklyn is the very bottom tier of The New York Times Public Intellectuals. The E.U. has been subject to, not just harsh criticism, across the political spectrum, but it’s utter … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Mr. Stephens doesn’t quite reach the level of apologetics that fellow Neo-Con Francis Fukuyama expresses: Headline: Author Francis Fukuyama, a Stanford fellow, backs far-right Azov group after school visit https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/fukuyama-senior-fellow-stanford-far-right-group-18193614.php Francis Fukuyama, a well-known author and researcher … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. The Reader experiences a kind of political vertigo, while reading this meandering ‘essay’. Even Tom Friedman and David Brooks manage to express coherence of very particular kinds, in their political/moral/commentaries. Frank Bruni’s political observation, are tinctured in Pop … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. Mr Ferguson no longer writes a column of opinion, but now resorts to that Straussian Methodology of writing a 2,626 word manifesto. That apes the Starussian ‘History of Philosophy’ as re-written in light of ideological imperatives ? … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Headline: Tony Blair gazes into a mirror and finds Keir Starmer seeking approval Sub-headline: Is Labour leader finally prepared to declare the party’s most successful prime minister is the model to follow, asks John Rentoul? https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-starmer-tony-blair-conference-b2377485.html … … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. As a long time reader of The New York Review of Books: 1971 to the present: Mr. Remnick was part of a ‘Left Coterie’ that included Robert Silvers, the editor of NYRB. Silvers idolized Kennan , he appeared often, … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. Note that ‘Liberal Zionism’ is not just moribund, but dead! While Tom Friedman was the ‘middle ground’ of Israeli Loyalists/Apologists, at The Paper of Record. His latest 1,819 word essay is anguished in its way, yet still hewing to … Continue reading →

Political Observer reads this crap, so you won’t have too! I recall Joe Conason calling Ralph Nader a ‘spoiler’ during the 2000 Presidential Election, in that once very trendy, salmon pink newspaper, The New York Observer. Also look at the treatment, in … Continue reading →