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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 →

In this case the ‘truth’ of the question is about partisan loyalty, refracted through the historical lens of the Weinstein scandal- our Present illuminates the Past? And Joe has always been a political conformist : I was a reader of … Continue reading →

Andy Divine’s latest moralizing intervention starts off with the Roy Moore scandal and ends with Bill Clinton. It is, as always, a convoluted political/religious imaginative variation on the themes he hold most dear: the Christian Revelation, and its sine qua … 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 →

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 →

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 →

Mr Zuckerberg demonstrates beyond question that he is a political/intellectual bumpkin! He built his search for dates into a ‘Brand’ that is Facebook. He had help. But to say that the ‘opioid crisis‘ and technology are the causes of America’s … 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 →

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 →

https://www.ft.com/content/70aca220-c30a-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656 https://www.ft.com/content/3327c766-c325-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656 https://www.ft.com/content/21db0302-c25c-11e7-a1d2-6786f39ef675 https://www.ft.com/content/e64f21e4-c222-11e7-a1d2-6786f39ef675 https://www.ft.com/content/c6066ce0-c2fd-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656 https://www.ft.com/content/563ea65e-c314-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656 https://markets.ft.com/data/announce/detail?dockey=1330-643383en-4QU46A2VSMU9SD4NVDBT44T2M5 https://www.ft.com/content/4680a384-c2fb-11e7-a1d2-6786f39ef675 What the Paradise Papers Tell Us About Global Business and Political Elites   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/paradise-papers-tell-us-global-business-political-elites.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29 The Panama Papers revelations succeeded by the Paradise Papers: Capitalism lurches  from crisis to crisis, aided by its … Continue reading →