Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Mr. Rachman having been born in 1963 has no actual memory of Malcolm X, yet some of his readers do possess that memory. Could the fact that Rachman spent part of his childhood in apartheid South Africa have any bearing … Continue reading →

Some sobering statistics put the Democratic Party  ‘horse race ‘ , as presented by Mr. Luce,  for its presidential nominee into perspective (As of September 27, 2019) : 129 days until the first Democratic Primary 209 days until the Democratic … Continue reading →

Mr. Rachman rightly identifies Life and Fate as a great novel , which he then scavenges , in the most cursory way, as somehow relevant to the present Age of Trump, and various  Populist Bad Actors . Of inestimable value, … Continue reading →

Headline: Democrats in a fever over universal healthcare pledges Sub-headline: ‘Medicare for All’ proposal risks alienating moderates ahead of 2020 election The ramble through the thickets of the political schizophrenia, that describes the New Democrats, on the long overdue Medicare for … Continue reading →

When reliable Inquisitor Andy Divine isn’t making holy war against Middlebury College, he likes to keep busy. See this valuable essay from The National Review by Andrew Stutterford of March 11, 2017, that takes Andy’s New York Magazine essay on … Continue reading →

Headline: America’s power is on a financial knife edge Sub-headline: China’s online payment platforms are the real threat to US hegemony Mr. Ferguson simply can’t let go of that old  Western and British straw-man of The Yellow Peril, and its … Continue reading →

ORDER FROM CHAOS FOREIGN POLICY IN A TROUBLED WORLD A how-to guide for managing the end of the post-Cold War era. Headline: The place of military history in today’s defense planning From the highfalutin ‘Order From Chaos’, the rubric under … Continue reading →

Cotton Mather was the first American Judge! This Historical Fact & his use of ‘Spectral Evidence’ was the precursor to American Jurists’ proclaiming the American Law Court as above Morality! Add to this Scalia’s on ‘innocence’ as explicated by Lee … Continue reading →

I supply a selection of quotes from The Economist of September 5, 2019 : Headline: How Britain’s staid Conservative Party became a radical insurgency Sub-headline: The Tories’ transformation leaves surviving MPs feeling uneasy The trio were among 21 Conservative mps … Continue reading →

Headline: It’s a bad week when BoJo’s bro Jo goes Sub-headline:Jo Johnson’s resignation reminds us how fraternity can turn to enmity The reader can only wonder at who wrote the headline to Mr. Ferguson’s essay? its an atrocity that should … Continue reading →