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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. '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 zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

There is no shortage of Neo-Faschists in America!

Old Socialist recommendes that the reader view @NYT this mourning: stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 05, 2026 Here is Fellow Traveler Quico Toro with the bad news! Venezuela’s New President Is No Moderate In fact, Delcy Rodríguez is a regime extremist. Quico Toro … Continue reading

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Zanny Minton Beddoes and her Cadre of Neo-Conservative Fellow Travelers on ‘The Decembrists’.

Political Cynic on a 2228 word History of the Decembrists as revelatory of what? stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 27, 2025 Christmas Specials | An uprising in St Petersburg Two centuries ago, Russian revolutionaries tried to change the world Bloodied and exiled, the Decembrists … Continue reading

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The Economist attempts to rewrite Adam Smith!

Economist Reader almost longs for Micklethwait & Wooldridge……. stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 24, 2025 Headline : Adam Smith is misinterpreted and his influence overstated Sub-headline: The most famous book in economics is less revolutionary than you think The reader must grant that … Continue reading

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What Is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions.

James Schmidt : https://www.ucpress.edu/books/what-is-enlightenment/paper stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 24, 2025

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David Brooks trades in NYT puerile chatter, that appeals to an auidence that thinks that the cadre of Friedman, Brooks, Stephens, French, and Guests, represents a kind of Wisdom?

Political Observer . stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 22, 2025 The reader need only this of the selection of his books: How to Know a Person (2023): Focuses on truly seeing and connecting with others. The Second Mountain (2019): Explores the quest for a more … Continue reading

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What The Sunday Times believes!? Sunday December 21 2025

https://www.thetimes.com/ stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 21, 2025

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In the dismal Age Of Trump & J.D. Vance, let us not forget Neo-Con Robert Kaplan?

stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 19, 2025 Robert Kaplan: America is ‘fated to lead’, a comment by Publius Posted on January 30, 2017 by stephenkmacksd I have spent the last three days reading Mr. Kaplan’s 24 page rambling screed , ‘The Coming Anarchy‘, at The Atlantic published … Continue reading

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Ian Ward of ‘POLITICO Nightly’ offers a diagnosis of JD Vance, as a possible contendor for ‘Reagans Welfare Queens’ ?

Political Observer stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 19, 2025 Editor: The Rise and Reign of the Welfare Queen Rachel Black and Aleta Sprague Sept. 22, 2016 Library of Congress / Public Domain By Rachel Black and Aleta Sprague Sept. 22, 2016 At a campaign rally in 1976, … Continue reading

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@FT 12/18/2025

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Bret Stephens spends an inodinant about of time prasing Rob Reiner & Michele Singer Reiner, though The Trump Political Monster is the proposed subject of his intervention…

stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 17, 2025 Editor: A selection from Mr. Stephens’ self-serving ‘Victimhood Narrative’ ! … Markets will not be moved, or brigades redeployed, or history shifted, because Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found stabbed to death on Sunday in … Continue reading

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