Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Headline: Uber wins French employment case Sub-headline: Labour tribunal decides Uber was not an employer, in contrast with UK ruling Here is the critical paragraph in this Financial Times ‘news story’ about Uber in France, and Florian Menard’s case before … Continue reading →

Poor Mr. Luce almost tells the historical truth: In place of America’s Episcopalian elites came the meritocratic establishment. On that  topic of the eclipse of that  ‘Episcopalian elite’ see: The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in … Continue reading →

‘a presidential historian at Princeton University’  Julian Zelizer repeats the respectable bourgeois, not to speak of the mendaciously myopic, Party Line on the FBI: “This is clearly a systemic effort to discredit [Robert Mueller’s investigation] and to sow doubts in … Continue reading →

I read a portion of Andy Divine’s essay of January 26, 2018: the usual shopworn narrative of his being the epitome of ‘Centrism’: that iteration of  ‘Centrism’ being  about the political rapprochement between the Neo-Liberals and the Neo-Conservatives. That marks … Continue reading →

  Don’t call Mr. Bezos a ‘disrupter’! Capitalism is about profit at any cost , it is never about  self-congratulatory Neo-Liberal mendacious rhetorical posing.  Call him an opportunist like all other Capitalist. Mr. Bezos is, in his other guises, owner … Continue reading →

The foreshortened evolution of Financial Times propaganda:  The Rebellion Against the Elites to the Populist Menace frames Mr. Rachman latest essay,  intervention,  as Corporatist advocate/apologists, that continues to exploit the seemingly endless political irrationalism of Trump. Yet Trump, like his … Continue reading →

Never fear, Mr. Ganesh has never even approached books like the collection of essays published by Harvard University Press of the Cahiers du Cinema edited by Jim Hillerman,  What is Cinema 1 & 2 by Andre Bazin published by University … Continue reading →

As an American kid, who grew up in the 1950’s watching the ‘Wonderful World of Disney’ ,and its many iterations with my younger brothers and sisters, Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromet video collection was something I gave to my best … Continue reading →

Where is the self-proclaimed  ‘Wise Republican Elder’ @iamDavidFrum when we need him, to interpret Trump & Trumpism? The midwives of Trump created the possibility/actuality of a Trump & are now full of theories, that adroitly avoids confronting their own political … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →