Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

@MissMarple What does ‘negligence’ mean? if not an utter failure to exercise the responsibilities that was an integral part of her job? Her ‘integrity’ is intact? And then to plead ,to adopt the pose of political naif, as the rationalizers … Continue reading →

In sum Ms. Lagarde was/is  the subject of a conspiracy: ‘She did not go to Ecole Nationale d’Administration, the school that churns out France’s political elite. Colleagues sometimes referred to her as an “Américaine”, due to her perfect English and … Continue reading →

Headline: A Middle East graveyard for western delusions Sub-headline: Aleppo’s fall signals the collapse of US and European influence The human catastrophe of Western colonialism, from its inception to the  Sykes-Picot Agreement to the present humanitarian crisis in Syria, is … Continue reading →

The American reader well over fifty will be vividly reminded of the era of Joe McCarthy and his zealous allies Nixon, Mundt and McCarren in the year 1952 , judging from the headline of this ‘news story’ awash in the … Continue reading →

How many times must readers be presented with the maladroitly expressed Straussian pessimism of Mr. Fukuyama, as having some kind of objective value? Mr. Fukuyama is part of a coterie of Political Romantics, who view themselves as the natural inheritors … Continue reading →

As frightening as Bolton is, The Brookings Institution headed by ‘Russia Hand’ Strobe Talbott, who exemplifies the ‘ethos’ of the New Cold Warrior, if you’ll pardon the misuse of the word ‘ethos’, were/are still a clear and present danger the … Continue reading →

Headline: With Trump, the US foreign policy framework is at risk Sub-headline: America has been a voice for liberty, open doors and leader of the free world The estimable Mr. Zoellick appears regularly in the pages of The Financial Times, … Continue reading →

What you advocate in your essay at Social Europe, For A European Political Economy Of Trust  could very easily be called Neo-Liberalism Lite! The old order of Keynesian economics, the dreaded Welfare State, and other such anachronisms don’t appeal to … Continue reading →

Headline: U.S. investigating potential covert Russian plan to disrupt November elections By Dana Priest, Ellen Nakashima and Tom Hamburger September 5 ‘U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are investigating what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the … Continue reading →

Mr. Beinart has perfected the art of ‘Liberal’ bourgeois political chatter, that hews to the current iteration of Political Orthodoxy. Along the way the names of Kissinger and Kennan are dropped, and the idea of ‘Civilizational Conservative’, and other foreshortened … Continue reading →