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Reader recall Brooks’s War Cry of ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces?’ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/1949245/the-collapse-of-the-dream-palaces/ stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 14, 2025 Editor: The final paragraphs of self-congratlatory dreck! … I got to meet Halik this week at a conference sponsored by the Faith Angle … Continue reading →

Political Observer contemplates the possibility, that the resistance to ‘ICE Raids’ will become the precursor of a Civil War ? stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 14, 2025 https://www.ft.com/?segmentId=b0d7e653-3467-12ab-c0f0-77e4424cdb4c

Pocock Reader wonders at the why of Robin’s paragraph long attack on Pocock! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 13, 2025 I’ve read the first two volumes of J.G.A. Pocock’s Barbarism and Religion, and his The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition : … Continue reading →

Politcal Observer: His Cast Charasters is like, in its own way, those dreadful Cecil B. DeMille Biblical Epics, we watched as children at the Arden Theater, and also as re-runs on * The Fabulous 52 ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 12, 2025 … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 10, 2025 For the past few years, I have had to ask myself a question I never asked before in my life: What should we call the era we’re living in today? I was born into … Continue reading →

StephenKMackSD stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 10, 2025 I left scool at 16 and drifted, and watched too much television! But that became part of my education! I watched The Today show with Hugh Downs that featured Aline Saarinen as Arcitecture Critic, Judith … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 09, 2025 From the New York Times of May 11, 2024 Headline: A Rising Democrat Leans Into the Campus Fight Over Antisemitism Sub-headline:Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, the proudly Jewish leader of a battleground state, has … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 08, 2025 Editor: Zanny Menton Beddoes is that dredful combination of Neo-Conservatine and Neo-Liberal: In sum the double reincarnation of Leo Strauss and Friedrich Hayek! Name her a Politica/Moral Toxin! So the latest diateribe fashoned by … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader on the GillianTett of February 16, 2015, that might place the Spectator guest of honor in another light? stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 08, 2025 https://www.ft.com/content/927efd1e-9c32-11e4-b9f8-00144feabdc0 Newspaper Reader.

Old Socialist! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 08, 2025 At The Financial Times: Mr. Jonathan Fenby’s Macron Press Release. Old Socialist comments Posted on July 22, 2017 by stephenkmacksd Headline: Emmanuel Macron lays claim to the mantle of de Gaulle Sub-headline : Like the general, the … Continue reading →