Monthly Archives: November 2025

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 23, 2025 Editor: The ‘Thucydides’s trap’ first appeared as an esssay and then a book. In 2015 as an article, and again in 2017 in book form. But Lydia Polgreen in her political desperation to impress … Continue reading →

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Editor: What is not supplied to the reader is an actual redable transcript of this conversation, that might lead the reader to look upon this conversation, as an exercise in political propaganda! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 21, 2025 Dispatch from Tehran: how … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 21, 2025 Editor: Since his ascedancy via his ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces’ David Brooks has self- presented as a Public Moralist, while acting an apologist/advocate via his wan protagonist Joey Tabal Rasa, as the central actor … Continue reading →

This collection of commetaries offer more than Matt Ford of The New Republic? stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 20, 2025 At The New York Review of Books: David Bromwich on the 2016 election. American Writer comments Posted on November 6, 2016 by stephenkmacksd Here is the … Continue reading →

Editor: My comment from October 20, 2017. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 20, 2025 Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 19, 2025 Editor: Mr. Friedman’s topic sentence: I write today about an epidemic. It’s not biological. It’s an epidemic of cowardly, immoral and unprincipled decisions by leaders across the political spectrum … Three examples preoccupy me … Continue reading →

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Newspaper Reader attempts to unravel … stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 17, 2025 Headline: Vladimir Putin has no plan for winning in Ukraine Sub-headline: Fighting will continue, but a reckoning is coming The opening of Edward Carr essay relies on History N JUNE … Continue reading →