Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

‘… I think it’s fairly certain that he and other members of the family were genetically predisposed to a fairly severe form of Asperger’s syndrome,…’ Dr. Lindqvist thank you for your comment. Congratulations are in order: you intuit/diagnose, across time … Continue reading →

The reader has to admit that Mr. Luce,as always, has an ‘elite’ view of the American Political landscape: he accepts the political feints of President Trump as part of a long term strategy, instead of what they might be, sewing … Continue reading →

Are these the rules that Ms. Slaughter uses to treat her underlings? Like her secretary or the lowly word processor? What Ms. Slaughter prescribes is for meetings at a certain corporate level. Because her series of steps takes valuable time … Continue reading →

In this episode of The American Political Melodrama Robert Kagan continues in his role as Porcine Spartan. He is tumescent over the possibility that Putin interfered with the American election. Based on the ‘evidence’ provided by the utterly lawless National … Continue reading →

Strobe Talbott is one of the very last of the once celebrated WASP Ascendancy: the Bundy Brothers, the Alsop Brothers and even George F. Kennan , chronicled in the gossip masquerading as history of  ‘The Georgetown Set’ by Gregg Herken … Continue reading →

The ‘Speed and Shock’ candidate Fillon demonstrates that the French Political Melodrama, in which Macron is the the putative winner, for now, is at an end? The Marinetti/Thatcherite offers what has proven to be an utter failure just across the … Continue reading →

Mrs. Thatcher used to pass out copies of Hayek’s Road to Serfdom as if she were passing out party favors. Then came the Crash of 2008, and the arrival of the Bail Outs and the appearance of ‘Austerity’, except for … Continue reading →

The unspoken declaration of Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay is: I’ve come to bury Labour/Corbyn not to praise them- I paraphrase. In the project of Neo-Liberal self-rescue, one of the most popular forms that that project takes is of misdirection. So … Continue reading →

Can the reader of his latest essay wonder, has Mr. Luce discovered the 99%? If so, it qualifies as a belated victory for the Scruffy Hippiedom of Occupy Wall Street! So much for my lapse into the hyperbolic. Mr. Luce … Continue reading →

My essay will look at Fillon as one of the main protagonists in this political farce, through the lens of The Financial Times reporters and editors. This French serio-comic melodrama as played out in the pages of this Neo-Liberal newspaper, … Continue reading →