Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Mr. Stephens is an almost a canny propagandist! Its not that his comments on the UN’s unseemly waste, fraud and abuse couldn’t serve the purpose of an impetus for reform. But it isn’t that, but an effort to place his … Continue reading →

Should the reader take this as the battle-cry for Macron’s Jupertarian Revolution? “This government seems to be intent on tackling all the French sacred cows,” said Isabelle Mateos y Lago, global macro investment strategist in the BlackRock Investment Institute. “It’s … Continue reading →

As always Mr. Divine wreathes his latest essay in self-congratulation. He references an earlier comment that ‘sounded the alarm‘ about Trump in his self -description, using a Platonic lens. Just to make plain Plato’s own record of dubious political affiliation … Continue reading →

Reading Mr. Lewis’ essay of ‘appreciation‘ of Mr. Peterson’s ’12 Rules for Life’, the reader is struck by this observation. ‘Not since William Buckley threatened Gore Vidal has intellectual pugilism been so accessible to the masses.’ One is taken aback … Continue reading →

Where was Anne-Sylvaine Chassnay in 1968! Probably as yet un-born! The headline gives the FT game away. So does the utter irrelevance of the Neo-Liberal Hack Mr Cohn-Bendit ! He joins Negt and Kluge in joining the ‘establishment’? But as … Continue reading →

Even the Neo-Conservative Washington Post gives a more nuanced view of the current, and planned, 37 day rolling walkouts in France! Although that isn’t saying much, but when compared to the sketchy report at this newspaper, it is speaks loudly! … Continue reading →

Oh my! Recall Mr. Zuckerberg’s triumphal tour of America, in which he proclaimed the ‘Opioid Crisis‘ as one of his most pressing political concerns, the other topic I can’t recall. A Politics of Non-Politics? As those Honorary Degrees were presented … Continue reading →

In the Sunday edition of The New York Times of March 19, 2018 two articles have been published: Headline: Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Why Aren’t American Jews Speaking Up? by Jonathan  Weisman. Headline:‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem Sub-headline: Police lying … Continue reading →

What is ‘the lesser of two evils’ ? Trump and Trumpism, in the wake of the collapse of the Neo-Liberalism backed by the New Democrats and the Republicans? The denial of responsibility of these two utterly corrupt Parties led directly … Continue reading →

Mr. Chait, Here’s the bad news on Conor Lamb: ‘Meantime, Democrat Conor Lamb, the apparent winner in that race, had an Israel moment in the race. It was exposed that he had written in 2002 of an Israeli attack on … Continue reading →