Monthly Archives: July 2025

stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 21, 2025 Editor : Heidegger and the Authority of the Philosopher. By Mark Thomas file:///C:/Users/steph/Downloads/Heidegger_and_the_Authority_of_the_Philo%20(1).pdf … Is it possible to treat an author as a philosophical authority and meet these requirements? I would argue that it is. This requires … Continue reading →

Old Socialist : Tom Wolfe is the shield/cover that Turley uses for his attack on ‘America’s Armchair Revolutionaries’ stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 19, 2025 America’s Armchair Revolutionaries: How the Left is Rediscovering Marxism as the Ultimate Virtue Signal By jonathanturley on July 19, 2025 … Continue reading →

Philosopical Apprentice. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 17, 2025 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicusby Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Michael Beaney.Oxford, 100 pp., £8.99, May 2023, 978 0 19 886137 9 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicusby Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Alexander Booth.Penguin, 94 pp., £14.99, December 2023, 978 0 241 68195 4 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicusby Ludwig … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 17, 2025 Editor: Friedman lectures Mamdani as if the Gaza Genocide were in a rear view mirror, of History. No surprise Friedman’s vacuous chatter is about feckless political conformity, practised over time, in The Paper … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 16, 2025 @NYT, in the person of @adamliptak takes aim at Ketanji Brown Jackson! Posted on July 8, 2025 by stephenkmacksd stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 08, 2025 Headline: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke Sub-headline: In … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 15, 2025 Headline: ‘I appreciate depreciation’ Katrina Forrester Sub-headline: Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Financeby Melinda Cooper. Princeton, 564 pp., £28, May 2024, 978 1 942130 93 2 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/katrina-forrester/i-appreciate-depreciation Editor: the quotation of the … Continue reading →

Posted on January 4, 2019 by stephenkmacksd I am reading ‘Becoming Freud’ and read this paragraph with amazement : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book-details/embed/#?secret=viZKs29FjE#?secret=s63PSG6JRx An apt analogy of Mr. Phillips book: a Studio Head, in the Golden Age of Hollywood, calling in The Wise Hack to do a re-write on a property. … Continue reading →

Old Socialist on the very elastic political standards of Jonathan Freedland & Fellow Travelers! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 13, 2025 Headline: We’re becoming inured to Trump’s outbursts – but when he goes quiet, we need to be worried Sub-headline: Across the US, … Continue reading →

Political Observer on the value of truth telling! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 13, 2025 As the crucial election looms in Greece later this month, newspapers have been full of pictures of demonstrations (or riots) in Athens. But there is another image hovering … Continue reading →

Political Observer’s Historical Recollections, of the once ascendant Micklethwait & Wooldridge! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 12, 2025 This reader just has to recall those ‘Best-Seelers’ authored by Micklethwait & Wooldridge. These books were the measuring device of the toxin of Neo-Liberalism , … Continue reading →