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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

Reader be sure to checkout the ‘The Influence List’ 2025!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Yours,Former Reader of The Financial Times stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 05, 2025 Reader there is so much more, including Elon Musk!

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Thomas L. Friedman in’The Desperate Age Of Trump’ embraces Ronald Reagan!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Political Observer recalls Reagans’s 1980 embrace of ‘States Rights’ ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 04, 2025 Editor: Let me begin my quotation of Friedman here: I am sure President Trump and his envoys to Russia, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, sincerely want … Continue reading →

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Bret Stephens has no experience of War! At the least the reader can look to Ernst Jünger’s ‘Storm of Steel’ as a record of Jünger’s moral/political toxicity!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader offers the reader Stephens final paragraphs: As an exersize in ‘Putinology’ wedded to a Joe Alsop mentality ? stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 02, 2025 Bret Stephens Ukraine Is Still Worth Fighting For Dec. 2, 2025, 5:00 p.m. ET … The … Continue reading →

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The Almost Irresitable Financial Times!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Former Subscriber. stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 02, 2025

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Neo-Con Adam Roberts whistling in the dark!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

The Economist and its present hirelings, have willfully forgotten their propganda predecessors of John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge? stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 01, 2025 Reader recall this from Nov 21, 2025? Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edward Carr, Nicolas Pelham & Adam Roberts discuss: … Continue reading →

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Patrick Maguire is the bumpkin who is in charge of The Times Department of Political Defamation of Jeremy Corbyn & Friends, or is it Fellow-Travelers’s?

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 30, 2025 Headline: Your Party’s spectacular own-goal squanders a golden opportunity Sud-headline: A chunk of Keir Starmer’s core vote were there for the taking, but Jeremy Corbyn’s party has instead succumbed to the hard-left’s self-destructive … Continue reading →

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Sarah Richmond in the ‘TLS’, & Jonathan Ree in ‘The New Left Review’ on: ‘A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy’

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 30, 2025 Editor: The final paragraphs of Sarah Richmond’s review/essay: … This is rich historical material, but ill suited to Schuringa’s accusatory purposes. Whatever funding Quine and Davidson may have received as young men, the work … Continue reading →

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On David Brook’s of ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces’ of his 2003’s War Mongering, offers a Profession Of Faith in the American Hegemon!

Posted on November 30, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Political Observer offers the last three paragraphs of Brook’s self-congratulatory chatter, & his genuflection to Ronald Reagan, that I have highlighted, and his swipe against Gavin Newsom! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 28, 2025 … A survey this year sponsored by the Reagan … Continue reading →

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At The Economist: a Scalia obituary, a comment by Political Reporter Posted on February 18, 2016 by stephenkmacksd

Posted on November 30, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

https://stephenkmacksd.com/2016/02/18/at-the-economist-a-scalia-obituary-a-comment-by-political-reporter/ stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 27, 2025 11/27/2025 Who can forget the utterly bumptious Antonin Scalia ? Stephen K. Mack There is no doubt that the author of this obituary is schooled in the Scalia patois, in fact she/he is adept at … Continue reading →

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Low Comedy at The Financial Times: ‘Megadeals hit record as Wall Street’s animal spirits roar back Global transactions of $10bn or more hit 63 as Trump deregulation and fading trade war risks spur’

Posted on November 30, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Political Observer wonders: When will the shit hit the fan? stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 27, 2025 https://www.ft.com/

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