Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Headline: Why Facebook should pay us a basic income Sub-headline: If data are the new oil then we may have found a 21st-century revenue stream At The Financial Times, the propaganda headquarters for Free Market Economics, in sum Neo-Liberalism, since before … Continue reading →

The reader can only wonder at the Palace Gossip of Arthur Beesley and Jim Brunsden in their report from Brussels. Headline: France pushes for top posts in eurozone reshuffle Sub-headline: Macron pursues greater economic clout after years of subservience to Germany … Continue reading →

Headline: Donald Trump’s clash of civilisations versus the global community Sub-headline: Human affairs are too interwoven to be the product of purely national decision-making How did I miss  Mr. Wolf’s July 11, 2017 essay extolling the G-20 as: The G20 … Continue reading →

Welcome to the United States of Amnesia, where the heroes and villains change according to the political weather. In the present political atmosphere in Washington D.C.,  Mr. Mueller is the hero, whose record of incompetence has been erased from the … Continue reading →

Headline: Civil servants lament Theresa May’s ‘wasted year’ over Brexit Sub-headline: Mandarins accuse No 10 of stifling policy debates and alienating EU partners Who are the ‘Mandarins’ that take center stage  in this ‘news story’ by George Parker and James … Continue reading →

An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story Niebuhr’s reputation as a primary American Philosopher demonstrates with stunning clarity the paucity of intellectual standards in America. He was no Sartre, Heidegger nor was even comparable to William James. He was, in … Continue reading →

Capitalist Folk Hero Steve Eisman, the inspiration for a Hollywood film, predictions should be taken seriously by the readership of The Financial Times? He was just a canny player in the game of Casino that is Wall Street. Here is … Continue reading →

Mr. Stephens essay of July 29, 2017 titled ‘The ‘No Guardrails’ Presidency’ makes the ludicrous argument that Trump is directly related to the year 1968, and its ‘moral chaos’, using a 1998 essay in the Wall Street Journal editorial titled … Continue reading →

One needn’t wonder over Mrs. Jobs  purchase of The Atlantic, after all America is the country where the land thief and murderer were king: the trials and tribulations of the  arriviste was one of the great themes of that insufferable … Continue reading →

On the Sullivan menu this Friday is the Trump Political/Constitutional Catastrophe, The Heroism of John McCain, and the Mendacity of Left Wing KPFA. America’s Adopted Drama Queen is at full screech in his comments on the Trump Nihilism, reminding this … Continue reading →