Monthly Archives: December 2023

@JohnBJudis American Political Prophet ?

Political Cynic comments on another Pretender! What might The Reader make of John B. Judis as thinker/writer? Below is a review of his ‘The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust’ Can Populism Be … Continue reading

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Gideon Rachman’s Political Hand-Wringing : ‘America and a crumbling global order’, or the end of American Hegemony?

Philosophical Apprentice approaches with doubt and caution! The first four paragraph’s of Rachman’s essay are a bit overwrought, indeed bordering on the melodramatic. It hasn’t occurred to this self-imagined Political Technocrat, that the World is changing/evolving, at such a speed that ‘it’ has … Continue reading

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The tines of Janan Ganesh’s Silver Fork impale European and American Populism

Philosophical Apprentice comments. It doesn’t quite occur to Mr. Ganesh that his argued commonalities, between European and American ‘Populism’ might be the product of an utterly failed Neo-Liberal Model, that ruled the West from Thatcher/Reagan era, to its tattered remains … Continue reading

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Bret Stephens on the imperative of a Palestinian State, and ‘The Left’ that dooms its possibility?

Philosophical Apprentice evaluates a Neo-Conservative’s fictional persona. The Reader confronts Stephen’s History Made to Measure : Do the people chanting “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” have any idea of the irreparable harm … Continue reading

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