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The Party of War is made up of Republicans and New Democrats: the prospect of something like dismantling just a portion of the military edifice erected to fight ‘The War on Terror’ or just call it ‘America’s Thirty Years War’ … Continue reading →

From the Versailles Grand Dining Room of the Hoover Institution, comes this compelling readable  Year End Roundup from the Niall Ferguson, some irresistible  highlights, the first is ,well , a nonpareil of the trivial, yet signifies one of the many … Continue reading →

Here are the first two paragraphs of Mr. Divine’s latest political encyclical titled ‘The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War’ The question before us is a relatively simple one: What would be the criteria for removing our remaining … Continue reading →

Headline: Where is San Francisco’s Bonfire of the Vanities? Sub-headline: The city is home to the biggest story in US commerce — yet the tech boom does not yet have its Tom Wolfe Who but feuilletonist Janan Ganesh would celebrate … Continue reading →

Headline:Democracies Are Fighting for Their Lives Sub-headline: Can they save themselves? The Headline writers of National Interest cultivate hysteria with their headline and sub-headline. Like Mr. Fukuyama before him,  Mr. Moeller frames his polemic with a paraphrase from a philosopher , … Continue reading →

Voter Suppression was institutionalized by Shelby County v. Holder, cobbled together by the Roberts/Scalia duo of Neo-Confederate/Originalists, under the rubric of ‘things have changed’ a jurisprudental metaphor, eviscerated by Ginsberg in her empirically based   defense of  the ‘pre-clearance clause‘. … Continue reading →

When you think that America’s ‘Academic Intellectual Class’, has hit rock- bottom- think of ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ , a more sophisticated version of what that officious Neo-Con, not to speak of self-appointed wise Platonic Guardian,  Alan Bloom … Continue reading →

Here is a helpful link to a Financial Times Lexicon  on Quantitative Easing and a portion of that entry: Central banks normally set the price of money using official interest rates to regulate the economy. These interest rates radiate out … Continue reading →

Headline: A humbler Emmanuel Macron needs to relaunch his agenda Sub-headline: Crisis over the French president’s reforms is a concern for all of Europe Macron in neither ‘humbler’ –imagine a humble enarque? , nor  does he need to ‘relaunch his … Continue reading →

Mr. Rachman’s little melodrama starring the ‘wounded’ Macron could not qualify for the Spelling-Goldberg treatment on American Network Television, such is its weakness in terms of dramatic kitsch. Forget the stunning fact that in the final election 36.5% of voters … Continue reading →