Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Mr. Hedges preaches a great sermon, it is his métier. Its too long, but there is a lot of territory to cover. The mention of Liberal Zionist Peter Beinart makes one wonder at Mr. Hedges historical perspective, as more of the … Continue reading →

 Headline: The Rise of the Violent Left Sub-headline : Antifa’s activists say they’re battling burgeoning authoritarianism on the American right. Are they fueling it instead? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-violent-left/534192/#comment-3465489044 Mr. Lee Jones, ‘Liberal Zionist’ Peter Beinart has reason to attack ‘The Left’,  as … Continue reading →

The reader just has to wonder at Ms. Tett’s thinking that Americans aren’t completely familiar with ‘Breitbart News’ ! We did witness the scurrilous attack on the person and  career of Shirley Sherrod by Andrew Breitbart in July 2010. Breitbart … Continue reading →

Mr. Sullivan’s screeching political hysterics become more acute with each successive week! Who and where is the ‘Left’ he inveighs against? The Boston Police and the city’s Mayor? Free Speech is important, and the why of the censorship exercised by … Continue reading →

In Mr. Kafka’s review of Mr. Crews’ Freud biography, Kafka seems doubtful of Crews’ motives for giving Freud his final sendoff ! Quoting from the partisans/practitioners of contemporary Psychoanalysis, whose careful re-interpretations of that shopworn mythology, in the name of … Continue reading →

If Mr. Stephens isn’t baiting the New York Times readership as being not just complicit, but of being the active agents of America’s Decline, he called its descent into ‘moral chaos’ as having  its locus in the year 1968 : … Continue reading →

Headline: Emmanuel Macron’s hopes of a grand euro bargain are misplaced Sub-headline: French president risks undermining his programme for economic reform at home That ‘economic reform’ of France was even  the subject of Mr. Bret Stephens’ May 5, 2017 essay, … Continue reading →

The reader can always count on The Atlantic to provide what? The hand wringing chatter of Neo-Con David Frum, as he passes himself off as ‘Wise Republican Elder’? That position is  already occupied by porcine Newt Gingrich, from his perch … Continue reading →

When I was growing up, in Lynwood, California, Watts on one side, Compton and  Long Beach just south, and to the east Downey. My younger brother Philip and I would mow the lawn, take out the trash, and sweep up … Continue reading →

The regular reader of feuilletonist Janan Ganesh is offered more book chat, as bookend to his essay of August 14,2017 ? Headline: What the summer book choices of the elites reveal about politics Sub-headline:  Three titles dominate and, if you … Continue reading →