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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. '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 licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

Almost Marx: Some thoughts on Bret Stephens joining The New York Times

Not being a reader of The Wall Street Journal, I wanted to become acquainted with Mr. Stephen’s career in journalism. Mr. Stephens has been hired by the New York Times as its newest columnist, who makes this declaration to his … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Public Relations Maven Daniel Davies opines on Obama’s $400,000 speech. Political Reporter comments

“The people are the sea that the revolutionary swims in”: attributed to Mao Zedong. What can this quote have to do with Daniel Davies cynical and self-congratulatory essay, on Obama’s reported speech that cost $400,000.Who is/was worth such a sum, except Bill … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Adam Tooze ‘reviews’ Perry Anderson’s The H Word. A comment by Political Observer

Prof. Tooze engages in an interpolation of the Anderson arguments, so the reader of his ‘review’ of ‘The H Word’ is somehow supposed to accept that the ‘Liberal Order’ is an historical actuality, rather than a usable intellectual construct, in … Continue reading

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Andy Divine discovers the political magic of Emmanuel Macron. American Writer comments.

Of the usual Sullivan Political Free Association, I choose the section in which he opines on the French election , with some asides. Read first Mr. Sullivan’s May 1, 2016 essay here : http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html This essay partakes of the usual … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Janan Ganesh defends ‘The Cult of Personality’. Almost Marx comments

Among the collection of cliches that Mr. Ganesh repeats, and or reworks, for the occasion of his essay, published on April 24, 2017: these first two stand out as demonstrative of  a purposive misdescription, and historically tinted mendacity. Mr Macron stands … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Le Pen ‘ambushes’ Macron. A comment by Political Reporter

The Whirlpool Visit will become, for both candidates and observers of that process, emblematic of the French Campaign : Macron, a Free Market apologist/Rothschild Banker/Elite Educated technocrat, first meets with the Union, and then promises,when the political heat is at … Continue reading

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The Financial Times reporter John Gapper pronounces Macron the winner of the June French election. Committed Observer wonders!

The reader of Mr. Gapper’s latest essay can’t help but smile, or even chuckle, at his British Exceptionalism, and its focus on The City as the wellspring of the myth of British Prosperity, but only for very select population of … Continue reading

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Current Reading: April 25, 2017

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo3637657.html https://books.google.com/books/about/Jean_Monnet.html?id=cAWLQgAACAAJ StephenKMackSD

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At The Financial Times: the political apotheosis of Macron! A comment by Old Socialist

Any political cliche not articulated in this essay is just an oversight, to the apotheosis of Macron! Made apparent in the glut of ‘news stories’ vying for the attention of readers of this newspaper. This inane headline a glaring example, … Continue reading

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Chris Bickerton’s essential essay on Macron and French politics! A comment by StephenKMackSD

I, like a great many, will read the comments on the French election results at The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, the American political gossip sheet Politico, and for a change of pace, the journalistic sink hole … Continue reading

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