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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

Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edward Carr, Nicolas Pelham & Adam Roberts discuss: ‘Dispatch from Tehran: how dangerous is the Iranian regime today?’

Editor: What is not supplied to the reader is an actual redable transcript of this conversation, that might lead the reader to look upon this conversation, as an exercise in political propaganda! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 21, 2025 Dispatch from Tehran: how … Continue reading

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David Brooks as would be Public Moralist never dissapoints his auidence?

Newspaper Reader stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 21, 2025 Editor: Since his ascedancy via his ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces’ David Brooks has self- presented as a Public Moralist, while acting an apologist/advocate via his wan protagonist Joey Tabal Rasa, as the central actor … Continue reading

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Some considerations on David Bromwich & Trevor Aaronson !

This collection of commetaries offer more than Matt Ford of The New Republic? stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 20, 2025 At The New York Review of Books: David Bromwich on the 2016 election. American Writer comments Posted on November 6, 2016 by stephenkmacksd Here is the … Continue reading

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‘The Age of Fracture’ in its European context. Philosophical Apprentice comments Posted on October 20, 2017 by stephenkmacksd

Editor: My comment from October 20, 2017. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 20, 2025 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 … Continue reading

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Thomas L. Friedman on ‘On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice’

Newspaper Reader stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 19, 2025 Editor: Mr. Friedman’s topic sentence: I write today about an epidemic. It’s not biological. It’s an epidemic of cowardly, immoral and unprincipled decisions by leaders across the political spectrum … Three examples preoccupy me … Continue reading

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@FT: Lawrence Summers to step back from public roles over ties to Epstein.

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 17, 2025 Newspaper Reader.

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Edward Carr’s essay about Putin is redolent of his editor Zanny Menton Beddoes Neo-Conservatism!

Newspaper Reader attempts to unravel … stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 17, 2025 Headline: Vladimir Putin has no plan for winning in Ukraine Sub-headline: Fighting will continue, but a reckoning is coming The opening of Edward Carr essay relies on History N JUNE … Continue reading

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The Financial Times and Volodymyr Zelenskyy!

Newspaper Reader on the approach of Putin : What to name it? stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 16, 2025 Question: What will Macron, Merz, Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen do in the face of the coming defeat? Not to speak of the … Continue reading

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A portion of ‘Creating a Science of Homelessness During the Reagan Era’

Newspaper Reader focuses on The Neo-Liberal Reagan! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 15, 2025 Creating a Science of Homelessness During the Reagan Era MARIAN MOSER JONES 1, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4364434/ The 1984 Campaign In 1984, homelessness became a presidential campaign issue. In a televised interview aired … Continue reading

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Richard J. Evans : Alien to the Community

Vol. 47 No. 16 · 11 September 2025 stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 15, 2025 Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would these … Continue reading

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