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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

My comment from January 22, 2012 : ‘Sol Stern on Arendt the Apostate’ by Political Cynic’.

Posted on December 7, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 06, 2025 Is this essay Sol Stern seeks the root of the current revival of ‘antisemitism’ to it’s origin: the great Jewish thinker and Heidegger apologist Hannah Arendt. Here we have the latest installment of the current war on the … Continue reading →

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How Hannah Arendt Helps Us Understand Our World Fifty years after her death in New York, Hannah Arendt has become the most popular philosopher of our time. For good reason: Her views are just as timel

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

https://derspiegel.substack.com/p/how-hannah-arendt-helps-us-understand stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 06, 2025 By Tobias Rapp It must be so nice to play Hannah Arendt. No fewer than five actresses are on stage this evening at the Deutsches Theater Berlin to portray the philosopher. The piece is an adaptation … Continue reading →

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My comment from January 22, 2012 : ‘Sol Stern on Arendt the Apostate’ by Political Cynic’.

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 06, 2025 Is this essay Sol Stern seeks the root of the current revival of ‘antisemitism’ to it’s origin: the great Jewish thinker and Heidegger apologist Hannah Arendt. Here we have the latest installment of the current war on the … Continue reading →

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Reader’s I missed this yesterday!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Former Reader of The Financial Times. stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 05, 2025

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Reader be sure to checkout the ‘The Influence List’ 2025!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Yours,Former Reader of The Financial Times stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 05, 2025 Reader there is so much more, including Elon Musk!

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Thomas L. Friedman in’The Desperate Age Of Trump’ embraces Ronald Reagan!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Political Observer recalls Reagans’s 1980 embrace of ‘States Rights’ ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 04, 2025 Editor: Let me begin my quotation of Friedman here: I am sure President Trump and his envoys to Russia, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, sincerely want … Continue reading →

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Bret Stephens has no experience of War! At the least the reader can look to Ernst Jünger’s ‘Storm of Steel’ as a record of Jünger’s moral/political toxicity!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader offers the reader Stephens final paragraphs: As an exersize in ‘Putinology’ wedded to a Joe Alsop mentality ? stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 02, 2025 Bret Stephens Ukraine Is Still Worth Fighting For Dec. 2, 2025, 5:00 p.m. ET … The … Continue reading →

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The Almost Irresitable Financial Times!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Former Subscriber. stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 02, 2025

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Neo-Con Adam Roberts whistling in the dark!

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

The Economist and its present hirelings, have willfully forgotten their propganda predecessors of John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge? stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 01, 2025 Reader recall this from Nov 21, 2025? Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edward Carr, Nicolas Pelham & Adam Roberts discuss: … Continue reading →

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Patrick Maguire is the bumpkin who is in charge of The Times Department of Political Defamation of Jeremy Corbyn & Friends, or is it Fellow-Travelers’s?

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 30, 2025 Headline: Your Party’s spectacular own-goal squanders a golden opportunity Sud-headline: A chunk of Keir Starmer’s core vote were there for the taking, but Jeremy Corbyn’s party has instead succumbed to the hard-left’s self-destructive … Continue reading →

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