Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Headline: Time for America to embrace the class struggle Sub-headline: This faultline feels less fraught than rifts over race, gender and sexuality Mr. Ganesh spends most of his essay chattering about ‘Identity Politics’ in its various iterations of Left and … Continue reading →

Mueller has indited Russians who cannot be tried in any American Court, and he won’t be conducting any Show Trials in absentia. A poor investment of his fraudulent prestige, of time and absent any self-serving propaganda potential, not to speak … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh, in this essay, is back where he belongs, as feuilletonist. On the dissolute M. Houellebecq read this interview by Angelique Chrisafis from 2015: Headline: Interview: Michel Houellebecq: ‘Am I Islamophobic? Probably, yes’ Sub-headline: Michel Houellebecq is the ageing enfant … Continue reading →

Two questions and a comment that the mendacious,recalcitrant Neo-Liberal Macron is incapable of answering, with anything like honesty : Macron must go ! … “I’m here today because I’m not happy with what is happening in France,” said Serge Perrin, … Continue reading →

Mr. Rachman’s choice of Jan-Werner Müller as not just a representative, but advocate, for a nostalgia that has at its center, a return of a ‘Liberalism’ of the kind that takes as its exemplars : ‘Isaiah Berlin, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., … Continue reading →

Thank you for your reply. In its essence, the term ‘Cultural Marxism’ is a term of abuse that describes ‘Critical Theory’ the product of ‘The Frankfurt School’?.That ‘School’ was founded by Felix Weil, a millionaires son, and called the ‘Institute … Continue reading →

Headline: Donald Trump’s stamp on history is greater than his flailing implies Sub-headline: The furore over the border wall distracts from the president’s effectiveness elsewhere Two paragraphs of Mr. Ganesh’s essay nearly leapt off the page, for me. The first … Continue reading →

Headline: Sikorski in hot water Sub-headline: Radek Sikorski said in January in a private conversation that he viewed Poland’s alliance with America as “worthless”. ‘MORE illegal recordings are destabilising the Polish government this week. The juiciest revelation so far is … Continue reading →

Headline: Populism faces its darkest hour Sub-headline: But as its rightwing variant flags, the leftwing version could surge The headline writers Financial Times have produced in the headline a fragment of melodrama that  Mr. Rachman’s wan polemic against Populism can’t … Continue reading →

Don’t the Corporate Shills here at @FT have editors who can provide a more convincing cover for their kowtowing toward Capitalism, and Ms. Slaughter as one of its hirelings? Headline: New America, a Google-Funded Think Tank, Faces Backlash for Firing … Continue reading →