Monthly Archives: January 2024

Philosophical Apprentice comments. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… A selection from Brooks’ latest Public Moralizing. Yet not a word about the Gaza Genocide! Brooks does offers an extended diagnosis of what ails us… Many professors seem to have lost faith too. They’ve become race, … Continue reading →

A Newspaper Reader focuses on one of the many political actors, in this Friedman Political Melodrama! ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. My brief collection of evocative fragments from this ‘essay’: There are many ways to explain the two biggest conflicts in the world today–while … Continue reading →

Political Observer on the Propaganda Imperatives of @NYT Bret Stephens & David Brooks. Like his Fellow Traveler David Brooks , Bret Stephens attempts to change the subject from the 24,100 dead in Gaza, by means of his latest essay: The Meaning of Gaza’s … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. J.G.A. Pocock in the London Review of Books offers this frontal attack on The Paradise Lost of Brexit: J.G.A. Pocock offers this on Brexit: Vol. 38 No. 14 · 14 July 2016 Profoundly anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, the EU obliges you … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. I’ll just ‘sample’ key paragraph’s of this wan apologetic that Mr. Friedman offers, on behalf Blinken, in a Newspaper that is the active partner of The American National Security State. Note that Friedman mentions Blinken being a Jew, yet … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. The Financial Times: January 5, 2024: Headline: Writer Giuliano da Empoli: ‘Putin knows he made a mistake. But one rule of power is to never go back’ Sub-headline: The Italian political adviser turned bestselling novelist on using … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. January 11, 2024: In my haste to comment on Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay, I commented about the Hunger and Homelessness in Britain. I failed in my moral duty, yes Kant!, to, at the least, mention the Gaza … Continue reading →

Political Commentator wonders, where the Homeless & Hungry might fit into ‘Ganesh World’? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… January 11, 2024:  In my haste to comment on Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay, I commented about the Hunger and Homelessness in Britain. I failed in my … Continue reading →

Political Observer. Opinion The FT View : Headline : The 2024 battle for America’s soul Sub-headline: Biden needs to spell out clearly what is at stake in his contest with Trump https://www.ft.com/content/7a99563b-6b66-4e43-94de-0dcaca5d60dc This @FT Political Melodrama has one advantage for The Reader! … Continue reading →

Political Observer offers some selective quotation of Stephen’s moralizing politics. Bret Stephens when he isn’t proclaiming his moral uprightness and virtue, he can’t resist the temptation to attack the Civil Rights Era and The Great Society of Johnson, on its … Continue reading →