Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

As former speech writer for Larry Summers, and his soon-to-be Boswell, Luce is to put it mildly, as obtuse as Larry, two utterly clueless white males! The headline writers of his newspaper use the notion of ‘urban crime wave‘, can … Continue reading →

Headline: US targets ‘stable, predictable’ ties with Russia Sub-headline: Blinken and Lavrov hold first face-to-face talks of Biden presidency in Reykjavik The untenable political fiction of ‘Russian Interference’ in the 2016 election, led Blinken and Joe to engage in dull-witted … Continue reading →

The first paragraph of Mr. Freidman’s May 11, 2021 column is demonstrative of a trivialization of the wholesale murder of Palestinians, by The Zionist Fascists State!    Let’s see, what happens when TikTok meets Palestinian grievances about right-wing Israeli land … Continue reading →

The Financial Times obligingly presents a capsule version of a possible CV for Mr. Indyk: The writer is a former US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the forthcoming book … Continue reading →

Headline: The GOP’s Massive Missed Opportunity Sub-headline: It’s called Trumpism Without Trump. But they can’t get there, and he won’t let them. Here are the first three sentences, of the first paragraph of Andy Divine’s latest essay: A long, long … Continue reading →

Does this describe the ‘propinquity’ between Arendt & Roth? Arendt: Born in conflict, Israel will degenerate into Sparta, and American Jews will need to back awayhttps://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/arendt-born-in-conflict-israel-will-degenerate-into-sparta-and-american-jews-will-need-to-back-away/ Or Roth’s ‘Plot against America’, retrograde Anti-Semitic paranoia, under the historical tutelage of Arthur … Continue reading →

In the May 7, 2021 edition of the the TLS, Charles King’s reviews Niall Ferguson’s new book ‘Doom: The politics of catastrophe’. Some revelatory excerpts:  … At its best, Doom is a vade mecum to misery. Whatever readers are facing … Continue reading →

Mr. Merry has been a ‘longtime Washington journalist‘ and the author of a duel biography of the Alsop brothers, that was reviewed at the New York Times under the title of ‘Aesop’s’ Fables’ by David Kennedy, in 1996. Some revelatory … Continue reading →

On the question of China’s demographics, here is a link to a 2013 essay in the The Journal of Asian Studies of 2013 by Karen Eggleston, Jean C. Oi, Scott Rozelle. Ang Sun , Andrew Walder and Xueguang Zhou, titled ‘Will … Continue reading →

After Mr. Corvile’s essay of April 25, 2021: Headline: Robert Colvile: No 10 has started a petrol fight with an arsonist. Did no one tell the PM he would get burnt? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/68f38c68-a4fe-11eb-9808-bf328d2144aa This lengthy political meditation on the Cummings/Johnson spat. … Continue reading →