Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

The Second American Civil War is just evolving as the ‘norm’ , in our country, with the bad actors The Proud Boys, the Boogaloo Bois, and the Political Class’ favorite Antifa– Mr. Luce ‘conjures’ QAnon, as the epitome of what … Continue reading →

In America, the  two houses of Congress, The Senate and the House of Representatives, not to speak of the Electoral College, are the checks against ‘too much democracy’ of The Founders. The Good Grey Mr. Walter Lippmann advocated a cadre … Continue reading →

 Ms. Foroohar, in her essay,  on the deteriorating relations between China and Trump, offers some thoughts on the fate of Neo-Liberalism, or have I misread?  Headline: China wants to decouple from US tech, too Sub-headline:Washington’s restrictions have only sped Beijing’s … Continue reading →

In the watershed of the complete collapse of The Mueller Report & Schiff’s well rehearsed Mini-Series, that produced Stars Vindman and Fiona Hill – while the political longevity of this melodrama was non-existent. The release of the original testimony secured … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh is my favorite flâneur! He can write a feuilleton, the rhetoric of the Sunday Supplement’s decorous chatter, like no other writer in America or Britain. His only possible competition is James Wolcott , once of Vanity Fair. As … Continue reading →

Lecturing about ‘Violence’ as’the weapon of the stupid’ is the stance of the respectable bourgeois intellectual, out of touch with the desperation/nihilism of the have not’s!The American Political Class: corrupt Neo-Liberals could not pass a $600 a week lifeline, to … Continue reading →

There is noting quite like the Financial Times’ Editors political/economic romance with Emmanuel Macron! Even in the face of the platitudinous, or is it high drama?, collapse of Neo-Liberalism, precipitated by The Pandemic: the notion that the Keynesian approach, adopted … Continue reading →

Should the reader be at all surprised that Mr. Cass is the executive director of ‘American Compass’ ? It’s another Think Tank. The quotation from Russell Kirk leaves no doubt :  ‘”A sound economy cannot exist without a political state … Continue reading →

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Headline: Shinzo Abe and his struggle with Xi Jinping Sub-headline: The outgoing Japanese prime minister was right to reject appeasement The Party Line on Shinzo Abe has been enunciated by Gideon Rachman, weakly framed in New Cold War melodrama. The political … Continue reading →