Monthly Archives: November 2025

The Financial Times and Volodymyr Zelenskyy!

Newspaper Reader on the approach of Putin : What to name it? stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 16, 2025 Question: What will Macron, Merz, Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen do in the face of the coming defeat? Not to speak of the … Continue reading

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A portion of ‘Creating a Science of Homelessness During the Reagan Era’

Newspaper Reader focuses on The Neo-Liberal Reagan! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 15, 2025 Creating a Science of Homelessness During the Reagan Era MARIAN MOSER JONES 1, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4364434/ The 1984 Campaign In 1984, homelessness became a presidential campaign issue. In a televised interview aired … Continue reading

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Richard J. Evans : Alien to the Community

Vol. 47 No. 16 · 11 September 2025 stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 15, 2025 Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would these … Continue reading

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Political Cynic opines: Can there be anything more vacuous than @nytdavidbrooks adoration with Tomas Halik?

Reader recall Brooks’s War Cry of ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces?’ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/1949245/the-collapse-of-the-dream-palaces/ stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 14, 2025 Editor: The final paragraphs of self-congratlatory dreck! … I got to meet Halik this week at a conference sponsored by the Faith Angle … Continue reading

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The Financial Times 11/14/2025

Political Observer contemplates the possibility, that the resistance to ‘ICE Raids’ will become the precursor of a Civil War ? stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 14, 2025 https://www.ft.com/?segmentId=b0d7e653-3467-12ab-c0f0-77e4424cdb4c

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Corey Robin psychoanalyzes J.G.A. Pocock!

Pocock Reader wonders at the why of Robin’s paragraph long attack on Pocock! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 13, 2025 I’ve read the first two volumes of J.G.A. Pocock’s Barbarism and Religion, and his The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition : … Continue reading

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The Reader has to brace herself for the latest Bret Stephens political hysteria mongering!

Politcal Observer: His Cast Charasters is like, in its own way, those dreadful Cecil B. DeMille Biblical Epics, we watched as children at the Arden Theater, and also as re-runs on * The Fabulous 52 ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 12, 2025 … Continue reading

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Thomas L. Friedman chatters while Rome Burns! In 3869 words!

Newspaper Reader stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 10, 2025 For the past few years, I have had to ask myself a question I never asked before in my life: What should we call the era we’re living in today? I was born into … Continue reading

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On the Intellectual/Moral Degradation of American Life and Lettres!

StephenKMackSD stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 10, 2025 I left scool at 16 and drifted, and watched too much television! But that became part of my education! I watched The Today show with Hugh Downs that featured Aline Saarinen as Arcitecture Critic, Judith … Continue reading

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How many times must we meet Josh Shapiro in the New York Times?

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 09, 2025 From the New York Times of May 11, 2024 Headline: A Rising Democrat Leans Into the Campus Fight Over Antisemitism Sub-headline:Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, the proudly Jewish leader of a battleground state, has … Continue reading

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