Monthly Archives: April 2025

John Yoo : ‘Birthright Citizenship Is American Citizenship’ ‘John Yoo: The Man Who Would Make the President King’, by Gene Healy : Mark J. Rozell & Mitchel A. Sollenberger on Unitary Executive Theory

Political Observer offers a selection from three sourses! The Fourteenth Amendment directly overruled Dred Scott by declaring that all persons born in the US were citizens. John Yoo. https://www.civitasinstitute.org/research/birthright-citizenship-is-american-citizenship. … & Wong Kim Ark is not just an artifact that history has long … Continue reading

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Newspaper Reader on The Financial Times and Trumpian chicanery!

Trumpian chicanery renders any attempt at finding motive and reasons, for self-serving political and economic manipultion, are moot? Exploitable Chaos is The Trumpian métier ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 12, 2025 Headline: Global stocks soar as Donald Trump backs down from trade … Continue reading

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Straussian Bret Stephens’ vain search for the moral/political high ground?

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 09, 2025 Headline: There’s Nothing Real About Trump’s ‘Real America’ … I’ve been thinking about this case as an emblem of everything that makes Donald Trump’s presidency so vile and destructive, even when I’ve bent over backward to give … Continue reading

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On the re-birth of ‘The Organization Woman/Man’from Yale University Press?

Who can recall this ‘American Type’, once lost in the fog of a yester-year, reivegortated in The Age Of Trump, asks Political Observer? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 03, 2025 A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of … Continue reading

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Edward Skidelsky from 1999: Perry Anderson ‘a strangely conservative figure’!

Political Observer on the value and necessity of actual History! stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 02, 2025 19 March 1999 The New Statesman Profile – Perry Anderson He is one of Britain’s great Marxist intellectuals, yet now he seems a strangely conservative figure … Continue reading

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I recall the salad days of ‘The Literary Wittgenstein’ quite well! John Holbo, of National University of Singapore of 2005.06.02 offers a telling critique!

Philosophical Apprentice offers a brief, but telling sample of John Holbo’s revelatory essay ! stephenkmacksd.com/ The Literary Wittgenstein John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer (eds.), The Literary Wittgenstein, Routledge, 2004, 368pp, $33.95 (pbk), ISBN 0415289734. Reviewed by John Holbo, National University of … Continue reading

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