Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Trump’s ‘five fateful foreign policy choices’ headline begins this essay, but just one sentence of Mr. Rachman’s dependable, and infrequently modulated political melodrama, demonstrates a certain repetitive political myopia, my apologies to the reader for this clumsy description, yet I … Continue reading →

Ms. Chassany’s descriptive analysis of the French political contest is awash in the indispensable polling numbers favored by a class of the pseudo-technocrats, whose corollaries in the American election, were proven to be, not exactly wrong, but wide of the … Continue reading →

I recall asking my mother what ‘without portfolio’ meant, when I was seven or eight years old, as I looked at one of her copies of Ladies Home Journal. This popular woman’s magazine, for generations of women, had as one … Continue reading →

@Pastaneta @Premonition Is there nothing like the perpetual keening of the minions of Capitalist Class? With apologies to Karl Marx! The Bail Out followed by Quantitative Easing isn’t/wasn’t enough? On that question see these two essays that define the term antithetical. … Continue reading →

In his Moscow Diary Mr. Luce produces more New Cold War hysterical propaganda with the aid of his Greek chorus of policy experts: ‘Bob Legvold, the veteran Columbia University Russianist’ who chants about : “a crisis of small thinking” and “global … Continue reading →

In reading Mr. Waldron’s review of two of Mr. Sunstein’s books, in the October 9,2014 edition of The New Your Review of Books: Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism by Cass R. Sunstein Yale University Press, 195 pp., $25.00 … Continue reading →

Mr. Tharoor offers very interesting insights on Fillon, the quotations from his speeches are telling. He is the Marinetti/Thatcherite candidate that has become the favorite of the ultra-respectable Financial Times. I put  Marinetti first , the Futurist/Fascist artist and intellectual, … Continue reading →

The failure of The Financial Times and its writers/editorialists is that of simple honesty. Globalisation is not the problem, the problem can be defined as the Failure of the Neo-Liberalism, given political legitimacy by the rise of Thatcher and Reagan, … Continue reading →

Just finished Chapter 4, titled ‘Splitting the Difference: Habermas’s Critique of Derrida’ by David Couzens Hoy, in this collection of essays. Clarity, insights and beautifully written. I’ve read his The Time of Our Lives : A Critical History of Temporality … Continue reading →

To call Obama a ‘liberal technocrat’ when he is most assuredly an unimaginative Neo-Liberal, and to utter this maladroit sentence: ‘When Vladimir Putin’s Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, John Kerry, the outgoing secretary of state, said: “You just don’t in … Continue reading →