Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Never fear the War Mongers @BrookingsFP: Porcine Spartan Kagan and his sidekick O’Hanlon, now have a new partner in crime, in New Democratic National Security State appointee John Allen, who coincidentally is President of The Brookings Institution. He not only … Continue reading →

As reported at RFI, the gilets jaunes as a political force does not seem to be ebbing : ‘More than 50,000 people turned out for Act VIII of the yellow vest protests on Saturday.Although peaceful overall,  there were violent clashes … Continue reading →

I am reading ‘Becoming Freud’ and read this paragraph with amazement : Book Details An apt analogy of Mr. Phillips book: a Studio Head, in the Golden Age of Hollywood, calling in The Wise Hack to do a re-write on … Continue reading →

Headline:Emmanuel Macron vows to press ahead with France economic reforms Sub-headline: President acknowledges ‘rising anger’ but calls for patience in his new year’s address David Keohane closely follows the Party Line on Macon, call it the ‘articles of faith’ of this … Continue reading →

Headline: Don’t mourn bohemia — it’s everywhere now Sub-headline: We think of offbeat enclaves as a thing of the past. But bohemia isn’t gone, it’s just permeated the whole of city life Mr. Ganesh resumes his rightful place as feuilletonist … Continue reading →

Stephen Kotkin voices a telling critique of Canadian Frontiersman & full time political/ cultural hysteric Jordan Peterson in the TLS: (The clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson contributes a new  twelve-page foreword excoriating Marxism, which in its banalities adds nothing to … Continue reading →

There are in Mr. Ganesh’s latest political feuilleton some serio-comic moments. His perpetual political misapprehension, or is it a cultivated ignorance? that  deserve highlighting , my focus will be as selective as Mr. Ganesh’s! “Turn out the lights when Mattis … Continue reading →

Headline: Putin poses a bigger threat than populism We are living in momentous times. The key phenomena of 2016 and 2017 continued to dominate 2018: Brexit and Donald Trump. This was not just because of their own unpredictability and international … Continue reading →

‘The Masters of The Universe’ and their Neo-Liberal Swindle has destroyed  both the Middle & Lowers Classes in America! But at The New York Times all is well! Merry Christmas, Almost Marx Merry Christmas, Almost Marx

Headline: The crisis of modern liberalism is down to market forces Sub-headline: Liberals are often led astray by their addiction to macroeconomic variables such as GDP Mr. Münchau’s  rhetorical/political  landscape is teeming with ideas, concepts and actors: Wolfgang Kartte : … Continue reading →