Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

The New Cold War is already here! The ‘Enemies’ are Russia, China and Iran, with a minor, but pivotal role, for North Korea. Mr. Ganesh writes ‘as if’ this doesn’t constitute the present political reality. Joe Biden’s choices of Blinken, … Continue reading →

Should the regular reader of this newspaper be surprised at this paragraph in this ‘news story’ about Le Pen? Headline: Marine Le Pen purrs as President Macron’s attack dog scampers round to the right … It is Macron himself who … Continue reading →

This political Melodrama begins with David Brooks in the New York Times of January 28, 2021: Headline: Children Need to Be Back in School Tomorrow Sub-headline: Teacher resistance is a disaster for the most vulnerable. There’s a wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished rereading, the Kant chapter titled ‘Kant’s Critique of Idealism‘,  In  ‘German Idealism:The Struggle against Subjectivism 1781–1801 by Frederick C. Beiser. It took some time, but well worth it.  I’ve started to reread ‘Prolegomena to any further metaphysics … Continue reading →

War-Monger & ‘The Bell Curve’ advocate/apologist Andrew Sullivan attacks The New York Times  & Dan-el Padilla Peralta for attacking the ‘The Classics’! Headline: He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? Sub-headline: Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient … Continue reading →

Title this ‘The Enlightenment of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’ ? Mr. Ganesh doesn’t need to dust off his Madame Arcati shtick, he uses C-Span to demonstrate that Bill Clinton’s utter betrayal of the New Deal Tradition, in America, might … Continue reading →

Here is an excerpt from Mr. Beddiel’s book, as it appears in the TLS: ‘Left outOn the insidious, pervasive, exclusionary nature of ‘progressive’ antisemitism’ Even Anthony Julius, the most trenchant Eliot critic? in his book ‘T. S. Eliot: Anti-semitism and … Continue reading →

Mr. Acherson’s essay in the December 17, 2020 edition: ‘Who Betrayed Us?’ was so helpful in understanding the time, place and the politics of Germany of the period, not a very original comment. Yet reading the 1918 & 1919 entries … Continue reading →

How will Joe Biden’s attempted self-rescue, almost before the fact, from historical/political failure be accomplished? The question is at this point is moot. But Mr. Ganesh offers the compromise position in the ‘Two Biden’s Mythology’, the reader is offered this … Continue reading →

Here is The Financial Times editorial board writing of Alexei Navalny as the favored ‘Russian Dissident’ of decade of the 2020’s But thanks to Mark Ames and Joe Emersberger, on twitter, the reader/viewer has a chance to see this new … Continue reading →