Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Headline: China targets rare earth export curbs to hobble US defence industry Sub-headline: Beijing asks industry executives if proposed restrictions will harm western contractors China is exploring limiting the export of rare earth minerals that are crucial for the manufacture … Continue reading →

The New Cold War is already here! The ‘Enemies’ are Russia, China and Iran, with a minor, but pivotal role, for North Korea. Mr. Ganesh writes ‘as if’ this doesn’t constitute the present political reality. Joe Biden’s choices of Blinken, … Continue reading →

Should the regular reader of this newspaper be surprised at this paragraph in this ‘news story’ about Le Pen? Headline: Marine Le Pen purrs as President Macron’s attack dog scampers round to the right … It is Macron himself who … Continue reading →

This political Melodrama begins with David Brooks in the New York Times of January 28, 2021: Headline: Children Need to Be Back in School Tomorrow Sub-headline: Teacher resistance is a disaster for the most vulnerable. There’s a wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished rereading, the Kant chapter titled ‘Kant’s Critique of Idealism‘,  In  ‘German Idealism:The Struggle against Subjectivism 1781–1801 by Frederick C. Beiser. It took some time, but well worth it.  I’ve started to reread ‘Prolegomena to any further metaphysics … Continue reading →

War-Monger & ‘The Bell Curve’ advocate/apologist Andrew Sullivan attacks The New York Times  & Dan-el Padilla Peralta for attacking the ‘The Classics’! Headline: He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? Sub-headline: Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient … Continue reading →

Title this ‘The Enlightenment of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’ ? Mr. Ganesh doesn’t need to dust off his Madame Arcati shtick, he uses C-Span to demonstrate that Bill Clinton’s utter betrayal of the New Deal Tradition, in America, might … Continue reading →

Here is an excerpt from Mr. Beddiel’s book, as it appears in the TLS: ‘Left outOn the insidious, pervasive, exclusionary nature of ‘progressive’ antisemitism’ Even Anthony Julius, the most trenchant Eliot critic? in his book ‘T. S. Eliot: Anti-semitism and … Continue reading →

Mr. Acherson’s essay in the December 17, 2020 edition: ‘Who Betrayed Us?’ was so helpful in understanding the time, place and the politics of Germany of the period, not a very original comment. Yet reading the 1918 & 1919 entries … Continue reading →

How will Joe Biden’s attempted self-rescue, almost before the fact, from historical/political failure be accomplished? The question is at this point is moot. But Mr. Ganesh offers the compromise position in the ‘Two Biden’s Mythology’, the reader is offered this … Continue reading →