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The regular reader of The Financial Times might look at the April 6, 2021 essay of Janan Ganesh: Headline: Biden shows that only moderates can govern from the left Sub-headline: The US president’s reassuring blandness frees him to do big … Continue reading →

Mr. Crenshaw manages the shot-gun wedding of the year: the Neo-Liberal Trinity of Hayek/Mises/Friedman to the self-hating, hysterical American Divine Johnathan Edwards’ ‘Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God’! Neo-Liberalism marries Christianity with Mr. Crenshaw officiating. The Estate of … Continue reading →

Macron’s signature ‘Jupertarian Politics’ is the deadest of dead letters! He (M. 37%) has stumbled over his own egoism, and his toxic ambition to lead the foundering EU, Neo-Liberalism’s in all its ghostly apparitions, has stalled in answer to The … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh employs his talent for aphorism, here, for a remarkable assertion, wrapped in a pastiche of that rhetorical gift. Or is it the product of the headline writers? The reader might just ask many questions and consider many avenues … Continue reading →

In Andy’s essay of 1,599 words, the pronoun ‘I’ is used 44 times and ‘me’ 10 times. This essay is not just about Andy’s returning to Worship, after the Covid-19 Pandemic, but a retrospective on the failings of that Church … Continue reading →

Headline: A Clash of Civilizations with Chinese Characteristics Sub-headline: A civilizational struggle of the “rest” versus the West articulated by Mao Zedong and embraced by Xi Jinping is at the very core of the ideological foundations of the grand strategy … Continue reading →

Headline: The US cannot be choosy about its allies Sub-headline: The network of countries that worry about China are not all liberal paragons America began losing its ‘moral authority’, an inheritance of Wilsonian Idealism, when it’s ascendant manufactures of electronics … Continue reading →

Living in The United States of Amnesia I recognise all of Mr. Rachman’s arguments/talking points, so carefully collected, to make the greatest impact on the reader. In Mr. Rachman’s telling leads to the thought of how close to striking is … Continue reading →

Headline: America’s growing fixation on race Sub-headline: Conservatives and liberals increasingly view the world through the lens of group identity https://www.ft.com/content/0f5845e7-2e10-4f22-916f-c1c970131d34 The reader has to wonder about how long Mr. Luce has been ‘the US national editor and columnist at … Continue reading →

Reading Judith Wolfe’s essay, in the TLS March 19,2021, titled ‘Soul-searching; A philosophical attempt to make sense of the self’ Professor Wolfe begins her essay with a paraphrase of Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold: ‘hearing the long, withdrawing roar of … Continue reading →