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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

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stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 24, 2026 NEW: Harvard Caught AI Hollowing Out Every Knowledge Worker in America Brendan Dell

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The reader of Bret Stephens’s latest diatribe in its later iteratioms confronts the unlikely? “Waiting for Godot” meets “Pulp Fiction” meets “Dumb and Dumber.”

Newpaper Reader posits its like that discarded sandwitch that was left in the back of the refigertor? stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 24, 2026 Editor: Stephens makes it easy to track his concluding paragraphs, political chatter via his underlining of what he thinks … Continue reading

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When all else failes The Economist Oxbridgers exhume Bagehot, as a point on the ‘political compass’, that has not lost its power to ensorsel?

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 22, 2026 Britain | Bagehot Sir Keir Starmer is a prisoner of the politics he pledged to end When rigmarole becomes reality Of all the distortions and deceits that Sir Keir Starmer deployed in order to reach … Continue reading

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Timothy Snyder as bankrupt political moralist on The Iran War: The Ukraine War is the child of Snyder and the long dead Robert Silvers, who willfully forgot what Left-Liberalism actually ment!

Editor: I first subscribed to The New Review of Books in 1970! Side notre: One might think that Barbara Epstein was the actuals Leftist? stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 21, 2026 Editor: Mr. Snyder offers this in his first 1115 word diastribe, a … Continue reading

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Iran just closesd the Ttrait of Hormuz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQb25672Sa4&t=11s stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 20, 2026

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The Oxbridgers at The Economist take the measure of J. D. Vance’s new book ‘“Communion”.

Newspaper Reader wonders about Oxbridger snobbery, but also about the rise of Vance via Peter Thiel political manipulation, and the manuscript of Hillbilly Elegy by many hands! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 20, 2026 Editor: I will just highlight some of the almost ‘literary … Continue reading

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Janan Ganesh from April 7, 2013!

stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 20, 2026 Janan Ganesh celebrates the decline of the Welfare State at The F.T. by Political Observer Posted on April 7, 2013 by stephenkmacksd Mr. Janan Ganesh celebrates the inevitable decline of The Welfare State and it’s misbegotten, indeed mendacious origins, and … Continue reading

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Ian Ward of ‘POLITICO Nightly’ offers a diagnosis of JD Vance…

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 20, 2026 Ian Ward of ‘POLITICO Nightly’ offers a diagnosis of JD Vance, as a possible contendor for ‘Reagans Welfare Queens’ ? Posted on December 26, 2025 by stephenkmacksd Political Observer stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 19, 2025 … Similarly, some researchers … Continue reading

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Just one more Zionist stooge!

stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 19, 2026 ESSAY The End of the U.S.-Israel Alliance By Joshua Leifer, a columnist for Haaretz. It would seem that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accomplished what his predecessors could only have dreamed of: U.S. and Israeli fighter jets … Continue reading

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Vance’s stark warning to Israeli leaders: ‘Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel’

Le Monde stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 19, 2026 Vance’s stark warning to Israeli leaders: ‘Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel’ By sharply criticizing Israel, accusing it of … Continue reading

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