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In the current crop of Palace Gossip about the Know-Nothing Trump Mr. Luce places his bet on the respectable bourgeois Saint Simon, Bob Woodward.  Luce places his ‘faith’ in the Woodward ‘brand’ : the vocabulary of Neo-Liberalism is the toxic … Continue reading →

‘Free Minds, Free Markets‘ ideologue Matt Lewis latest @DailyBeast essay starts out with a well deserved attack on former California AG Kamala Harris and Ambulance Chaser Corey Booker. First, here are two characterizations of Trump, by Lewis that need to … Continue reading →

@EllipticCurve @DS_Analyst This from the BBC: Headline: Labour adopts full anti-Semitism definition Sub-headline : The UK Labour Party’s ruling body has agreed to adopt in full an international definition of anti-Semitism, after months of rows. ‘It will incorporate all the … Continue reading →

Here is the ’emerging Party Line’ on the ‘Argentine Crisis’ from the Neo-Liberals, as reported in The Financial Times : Investors have been looking for the government to ditch its policy of “gradualism” in reducing its spending, and many analysts … Continue reading →

As moving and enlightening as I found Thomas Chatterton Williams’ interview here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/245784/thomas-chatterton-williams He is an outsider by choice, and more importantly by experience, his role model being his father aided by his own temperament. Mr. Williams remains well within … Continue reading →

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Here is a copy of page 100 and 101 of Cloaked in Virtue. I have provided a link to a copy that can be enlarged for easier reading : https://goo.gl/WzYPNu In this page and…

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America’s favorite Straussian, Mr. Fukuyama, can be depended upon to hit the high spots of the perennial Political Moralizing that infects the hectoring rhetoric of the Right. His concern for the ‘poor’ the ‘underclass’…

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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 →