Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

What an opening paragraph, brimming with Reagan/Thatcher nostalgia, such is the moral/political desperation of Mr. Luce for a ‘beginning’ to  his political moralizing. It takes effort to recapture how Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s hastened the demise … Continue reading →

What a powerful opening paragraph , or is it just hyperbole in high gear? On first reading, approaching the breathtaking.  Bravo!   ‘ The shape, direction, and force of the next Republican vector is the next great question of political physics. … Continue reading →

That two books on Liberalism, not ‘liberalism’ as Mr. Ganesh would have it, have escaped his attention is no surprise, it might interfere with his political yarn spinning. Liberalism at Large:The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin Liberalism:A … Continue reading →

The reader is a bit puzzled by Ferguson’s reliance on his proximity to ‘The Great Man’, he is now at The Hoover Institution, where 1929 went to live, and conservative thought flourishes, and is the author of a hagiography of … Continue reading →

Reading the Lincoln Project Manifesto in The New York Times is instructive, of more than this collection of carefully framed political cliches, by political technocrats, who make it their business to write evocative and high-sounding rhetoric for use in campaigns: … Continue reading →

What to think of Fillon’s conviction? The notorious French Thatcherite was a shameless embezzler!  Headline: Former French PM sentenced to jail for embezzlement Sub-headline: François Fillon found guilty over wife’s fake job as parliamentary aide François Fillon, the former French … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh opens his collection of observations, prognostications, larded with the usual self-congratulation, framed by his own ‘grip on logical reasoning’,  with this paragraph: At its midpoint, 2020 is turning out to be one of the darkest years in the … Continue reading →

The ‘Two State Solution’ is as dead as Freud’s ‘Science of Psychoanalysis’! Psychoanalysis has morphed into, has been re-imagined into a form of ‘Jewish Storytelling’ , or a Metaphysic , according the various factions, of its coterie of practitioners. Its … Continue reading →

As a once regular reader of Timothy Garton Ash, in the NYRB, e.g. ‘The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 as Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague’ and all his essays published in that once Left/Liberal tabloid, a vexing … Continue reading →

Headline: Emmanuel Macron Is Losing His Urban Grip Sub-headline: France’s cities aspire to more radical green policies, and that’s hard to square with voters from the rest of the country.  The reader need only read Laurent’s first paragraph: There were two … Continue reading →