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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

In the dismal Age Of Trump & J.D. Vance, let us not forget Neo-Con Robert Kaplan?

stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 19, 2025 Robert Kaplan: America is ‘fated to lead’, a comment by Publius Posted on January 30, 2017 by stephenkmacksd I have spent the last three days reading Mr. Kaplan’s 24 page rambling screed , ‘The Coming Anarchy‘, at The Atlantic published … Continue reading

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Ian Ward of ‘POLITICO Nightly’ offers a diagnosis of JD Vance, as a possible contendor for ‘Reagans Welfare Queens’ ?

Political Observer stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 19, 2025 Editor: The Rise and Reign of the Welfare Queen Rachel Black and Aleta Sprague Sept. 22, 2016 Library of Congress / Public Domain By Rachel Black and Aleta Sprague Sept. 22, 2016 At a campaign rally in 1976, … Continue reading

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@FT 12/18/2025

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Bret Stephens spends an inodinant about of time prasing Rob Reiner & Michele Singer Reiner, though The Trump Political Monster is the proposed subject of his intervention…

stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 17, 2025 Editor: A selection from Mr. Stephens’ self-serving ‘Victimhood Narrative’ ! … Markets will not be moved, or brigades redeployed, or history shifted, because Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found stabbed to death on Sunday in … Continue reading

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Richard Waters reviews the Peter Thiel biography, in The Financial Times.

Political Observer comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 23, 2021 stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 15, 2025 Just why would the West Coast Editor of The Financial Time ever utter a bad word about a very successful Capitalist ? And a vindictive and querulous Capitalist, whose … Continue reading

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The Financial Times & ‘The Business of Formula 1?’

Former Reader wonders at this – what to name it? stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 15, 2025

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Jonathan Turley in almost High dudgeon!

Newspaper Reader . stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 14, 2025 Reader recall this from Jonathan Turley defender of the Free Speech of Weiss, Dokoupil and company ? See the quote below. Just a sample of this is Turley political comformity that now meets Britain … Continue reading

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Kant’s Late Philosophy of Nature The Opus postumum.

https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/philosophy/philosophy-texts/kants-late-philosophy-nature-iopus-postumumi?format=PB&isbn=9781009013765#contents stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 13, 2025

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Jonathan Turley is the near penultinate American Lawyer? Or should should the reader look to the storied career of *Louis Nizer?

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 12, 2025 Newspaper Reader: Reader Shari Redstone as just another toxic Zionist! Trump-CBS lawsuit settlement was ‘right decision’, says former Paramount chair Shari Redstone By Harshita Mary Varghese and Dawn Chmielewski December 4, 202510:10 AM PSTUpdated December 4, 2025 … Continue reading

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The mendacity & opportunism of @NYT is utterly reliable!

Newspaper Reader performs some Political Archaeology on The New York Times & the Neo-Conservative Christopher Caldwell ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 11, 2025 Editor: I read this when it was first published! Headline: The Big Muslim Problem! Sub-[headline: December 17, 2009 issue … Continue reading

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