Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

@Freakus Thank you for your comment. But @Buckley’s Ghost has provided a reply. Its last sentence seems to lack a certain decorum, but provides a quote from  Obama, or at least provide a usable paraphrase. Your definition of the ‘marginal … Continue reading →

Headline: America is still waiting for a true populist Sub-headline: The marginal voter wants universal healthcare and higher taxes, but also tighter borders Mr. Ganesh is a bit late in posting  his Anti-Sanders essay. although not quite as crude, not … Continue reading →

‘Sam Leith is literary editor of The Spectator’ what better credential for this hatched-job on Harry ? Its shameless a-historicism, a monument to the publishers David and Frederick Barclay commitment to the Royals, as the subject of a necessary Feudal … Continue reading →

In a week in which Rich Lowry, editor of National Review opined on Bernie Sanders: Headline: Bernie Is Not Normal … Sanders does indeed have his charms. He’s sincere, consistent, and inarguably himself. He now has a step on frenemy … Continue reading →

I always imagine Andy Divine as Waldo Lydecker in his bath, typing his latest column, while being interviewed by detective Mark McPherson, in that Preminger Hollywood kitsch, Laura! Preminger never made another ‘film’ that matched its melodramatic excesses. Waldo as … Continue reading →

Headline: Beware Trump’s admiration for Putin, Xi and Erdogan Sub-headline: The US president has made little attempt to hide his respect for strongman leaders The fate of ‘The West’ was sealed with the ascendancy of Thatcher and Reagan, that gave … Continue reading →

Mr. Ferguson’s bellicosity is unslakable, and never a surprise. The Qassem Soleimani murder forces Ferguson to  resort to Walter Russel Mead’s Wall Street Journal celebration of ‘Jacksonian foreign policy’. And his ‘Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed … Continue reading →

This vulgar melodrama from Hisham Melhem, newspaperman and hireling of the The Arab Gulf States Institute, headed by the son of the CIA’s Frank G. Wisner and financed by nearly 4 Million budget. This has CIA Front Group written all … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh’s forgettable political chatter is rescued from the territory of the jejune by his attack on his literary/political better Gore Vidal . Not the ‘Sage of Amalfi’ but ‘The Patrician Rebel’ who was almost a big a snob as … Continue reading →

After a quick search for the proper historical analogy for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, Mr. Ferguson provides the ‘correct analogy’, and dismisses any notion that this will lead to WWIII. But note that Ferguson echos the rhetoric of the … Continue reading →