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About stephenkmacksd

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

On the desperation of The New Republic, in featuring John Yoo of the toxic lie of ‘The Unitary Executive’!

Newspaper Reader on the utterly bankruptcy of Michael Tomasky, apologist for the failure of the New Democrats, since the Neo-Liberalism of Bill & Hillery to the political present! stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 11, 2025 Even George W. Bush’s Torture Guy Thinks Trump … Continue reading

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The Political Hysteria of Zionist shill Bret Stephens, in The New York Times, isn’t just about shoddy note keeping?

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 10, 2025 Editor: The paragraphs below set the scene for the patient reader, who can just about see through Stephen’s particular expression of Doom and Gloom! About a West that will experience the end of the Ukraine War, … Continue reading

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@FT 12/9/2025

Is @FT the @NYT with bigger fangs? stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 09, 2025 https://www.ft.com/

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson continues to upset the Supreme Court, and Jonathan Turley!?

Poltical Observer wonders at the versitility, even the indefatigability of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s thought! That it peakes Turley’ ire is … stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 09, 2025 Humphrey’s Estate and Jackson’s Experts: Justice Offers Surprising View of the Separation of Powers Editor: … Continue reading

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Does Jonathan Freedland as Public Moralist ring true?

Old Socialist wonders at political opportunism, in its various and toxic itertions? stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 07, 2025 Headline: The Trump administration sinks to a new low – opening fire on drowning men Sub-headline: These deadly US boat strikes are the latest … Continue reading

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Zanny Menton Beddoes and her cadre: Edward Carr, Sacha Nauta & Duncan Robinson

Political Observer : The Reader must demand a the transcript! Even John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge used the The Economist as ‘the rehersal space’ for all those BestSellers! stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 07, 2025 Editor: Reader take note that The Economist once … Continue reading

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My comment from January 22, 2012 : ‘Sol Stern on Arendt the Apostate’ by Political Cynic’.

stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 06, 2025 Is this essay Sol Stern seeks the root of the current revival of ‘antisemitism’ to it’s origin: the great Jewish thinker and Heidegger apologist Hannah Arendt. Here we have the latest installment of the current war on the … Continue reading

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How Hannah Arendt Helps Us Understand Our World Fifty years after her death in New York, Hannah Arendt has become the most popular philosopher of our time. For good reason: Her views are just as timel

https://derspiegel.substack.com/p/how-hannah-arendt-helps-us-understand stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 06, 2025 By Tobias Rapp It must be so nice to play Hannah Arendt. No fewer than five actresses are on stage this evening at the Deutsches Theater Berlin to portray the philosopher. The piece is an adaptation … Continue reading

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My comment from January 22, 2012 : ‘Sol Stern on Arendt the Apostate’ by Political Cynic’.

stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 06, 2025 Is this essay Sol Stern seeks the root of the current revival of ‘antisemitism’ to it’s origin: the great Jewish thinker and Heidegger apologist Hannah Arendt. Here we have the latest installment of the current war on the … Continue reading

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Reader’s I missed this yesterday!

Former Reader of The Financial Times. stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 05, 2025

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