Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

@AB thank you for your comment. ‘Just because you religiously reference old FT articles like you’re writing a Family Guy episode doesn’t make you sophisticated.’ Yes, I do reference old FT articles. Religiously, no! The reason is obvious, I am … Continue reading →

Mr. Stephens can’t resist the continuing temptation of baiting the readership of the New York Times. To that reader, Obama plays the role of ‘Liberal’, rather than what he is politically, a Neo-Liberal i.e. a New Democrat. In sum, Obama … Continue reading →

Compare Judge Wally Yeung’ comments on the Wong, Law and Chow case : Judge Wally Yeung said the case was the “best example” of an “unhealthy trend” in which some youngsters had “casually destroyed public order” in the name of … Continue reading →

This reader found Mr. Luce’s latest essay to be awash in Trump Hysterics, that reads in part like a denial of responsibility. In sum, the Neo-Liberals, whose Utopianism has collapsed, just as its theology of The Self-Correcting Market has proven … Continue reading →

My comment on  Mr. Rachman’s latest essay  has been removed from the comments section of The Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/308e0f90-80ce-11e7-94e2-c5b903247afd My ‘crime against FT decorum’ comparing Mr. Rachman to Rip Van Winkle! Not to speak of my comparing Trump to Reagan. … Continue reading →

Headline: America is now a dangerous nation Sub-headline: The president may exploit an overseas conflict to distract from problems at home Caption under a photograph of Donald Trump: Donald Trump is offering the very opposite of the steady, predictable and calm … Continue reading →

‘If there is a civil war going on, it has been started by those who exploit the situation, in order to create a new Soviet or Khmer Rouge style system, or an invisible, communist underground empire of intimidation… In your … Continue reading →

The reader can only wonder at the number of thinkers and writers engaged in the rehabilitation of Freud. The journey of Psychoanalysis from ‘Science’ to ‘Metaphysic’, and now to its status as a singular expression of  Freud’s Philosophy of Mind, … Continue reading →

The fact that America is in a state of Civil War has escaped the attention of the ‘Liberal’ Mr. Peter Beinart! He places himself rhetorically as the ‘objective viewer’ of the  state of American divisive politics of the present.  In … Continue reading →

Andy Divine at full screech has the mesmerizing quality of seeing a plane crash or watching a traffic accident happen before your eyes. The blustering threats exchanged between The Donald and Kim Jong-un sends our Drama Queen into a fits … Continue reading →