Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

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 →

Read the first two paragraphs of Andy’s regular political gossip column : in this episode, Andy takes the rhetorical guise of a Thatcherite Miss Lonelyhearts:  History can be funny sometimes, can’t it? And if a slight smile didn’t cross your … Continue reading →

 ‘Finance minister emphasises that US administration is ‘very collaborative’ on vaccines’ Does this describe the ‘very collaborativeness’ : Headline: Vaccine makers say IP waiver could hand technology to China and Russia Sub-headline: Proposal to suspend patent rights comes as poorer countries struggle … Continue reading →

The reader just has to look at a map to see that The Solid South, except for the four smallest states, is controlled by Republicans, and that the leadership of the Senate Republicans has been Mitch McConnell since 2007, a … Continue reading →

Should a Larry Summers Neo-Liberal cast aspersions on the champion of ‘aggrieved white conservatism’ and an almost argued ‘ideal pluto-populist’, who also is a possible presidential candidate? This has the stale aroma of Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent series of novels, with a … Continue reading →