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Beware the Straussians! Intellectual bloat, windy and self-serving re-descriptions of the past, the political  present and predictions on our collective, benighted future, by the stern guiding hand of the self-appointed Philosopher King! One need…

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‘One of the great turning points in 20th-century American history was the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which overturned on constitutional grounds the 19th-century Plessy v. Ferguson case that had…

“History removed them from the conversation,” she says. Thomas decided to restart that conversation, placing black women in the same poses as some of western art’s most famous works. In 2010, for instance, she took on Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur … Continue reading →

M. 37% is an authoritarian, in the highfalutin guise of  his Jupertarian Politics! That’s the ‘why’ of Mr Benalla unsurprising attack, under the cover of a false authority, on a demonstrator. Not under discussion is the inconvenient  fact that 36.5% of … Continue reading →

@behcettin @StephenKMackSD Thank you for your comments. Are Bankers held in high regard in any political quarter, even here, at one of the major advocates for the Free Market Doctrine? The decline of the ‘Banker’ is an idea that seems to … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh provides a very particular history made to measure of the rise of American Populism.  And in just 841 words! Here are two paragraphs of the most suggestive parts of his narrative, his political panorama is almost rendered in … Continue reading →

The next stage in Corporatist Apologetics is the newest ‘Think Tank’ NeuroLeadership Inst: Neuroleadership refers to the application of findings from neuroscience to the field of leadership.[1] The term neuroleadership was first coined by David Rock[2] in the US publication … Continue reading →

Again Mr. Ganesh is completely out of his element! Not a surprise, but here is the very serious misjudgement, or worse yet, just a recitation of the catechism, that leaps from the page: The threat posed by Mr Manafort is … Continue reading →

Jim Brunsden and Kerin Hope recite the Neo-Liberal Catechism as if it were Revealed Truth. The Greeks must meet the Austerity Standards set by its creditors, the recitation of Neo-Liberal Propaganda: Hit the targets, Stimulate the economy,Fix the banks, Create … Continue reading →

It is, without doubt, presumptuous to truncate Mr. Kundnani’s review of  Mr. Jan Zielonka’s book ‘Counter Revolution’, but these historical insights as reviewed, explicated, indeed,  illuminated by Kundnani, need to be shared with the largest possible readership! … Zielonka seeks not … Continue reading →