Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Old Socialist comments. The window dressing of this essay/propaganda is of interest Pay attention to the Framing. Mr. Brooks shamelessly appropriates Mark Twain. The mighty Mississippi rolls on. The mighty rolling river sweeps up new generations.The mighty rolling river sweeps … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. I will begin with a link to my January 4, 2019 essay: Phillips ‘biography’ is not just flawed, but is an incompetent apologetic for Freud: Phillips is not just inconsistent, but just sloppy from chapter to chapter … Continue reading →

Political Cynic wonders why and how this was published by The Paper of Record! Note how Stephens opens his essay: In the summer of 2011, Rupert Murdoch stopped by my small office at The Wall Street Journal, where I was … Continue reading →

American Writer comments. Being an American Hick, I can only think that Robert Colvile’s essays on British Politics, reminds me of those BBC adaptations of Anthony Trollope’s Pallisers Novels. Though I read a part of ‘Vivian Grey’, until he left England … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. Neo-Con Bret Stephens attacks ‘the progressive left’ that all purpose epithet, as a place holder for actual thought. The use of the ‘lower case’ is an act of political diminution, in sum shaming! Mr. Stephens provides two narratives of the Adam … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. As well argued as it is, Mr. Robin essay fails to look at the fact that, if I have the cash, to make a donation to the Supreme Court ‘charity’, I can purchase an audience with a … Continue reading →

Old Socialist engages in ‘waste management’. @RColvile opens with these two paragraphs: It is one of the most extraordinary statistics in British politics. Unless Rishi Sunak hurries to the polls, the next election will take place a full 50 years … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Macron has shown something resembling political independence from the American Hegemon ? The Reader might look to the Full Scale Rebellion against Macron’s raising the Retirement Age, was it a political mistake to bypass the Senate? as part of … Continue reading →

Queer Atheist confronts an ‘Old World Thinker’. Headline: Militant unions thrive in a weaker society Sub-headline: Extremism is increasing as economic and political objectives merge with the culture wars https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/militant-unions-thrive-in-a-weaker-society-5nh536ddv Let me begin with these paragraphs steeped in political paranoia: … Continue reading →

Myra Breckinridge reads selected portions… Son of Wm. F. Buckley Jr. is now billed as a ‘a novelist and a humorist’ : what reader can forget ‘Thank You for Smoking’ of 1994? The opening paragraphs of his latest ‘essay’ doesn’t demonstrate ‘humor’, but untalented chatter, … Continue reading →