Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Here is the concluding paragraph of Mr. Bromwich’s wan, almost apology, for Mrs. Clinton, he seems torn. Trump is such an easy target, he is always the Ringmaster of television fame. But Bromwich is a writer of the school of … Continue reading →

A reader must approach with caution Mr. Wolf’s review of Wolfgang Streeck’s book ‘How Capitalism Will End’. The opening paragraph is demonstrative of Mr. Wolf’s defensive posture. The first sentence has the ring of the King James Bible about it, … Continue reading →

The Financial Times is fortunate to have Mr. Stubb, or Mr.  90%, as one of its stable of writers/propagandists. Whose made to measure definition Liberalism is puzzlingly simplistic, or just politically self-serving? ‘… who believe in a combination of democracy, … Continue reading →

‘A man who just got the official endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan is close to becoming president of the United States.’ She’s running against the Kremlin—… She’s running against Julian Assange… And she’s running against a rogue FBI director … Continue reading →

  @Confucius @Sam Not to see the parallels between The Manchurian Candidate as a product of American Cold War paranoia, and the political present, if only to realize that an integral part that Old Cold War paranoia is being replayed, although … Continue reading →

This is an astounding paragraph coming from Mr. Luce, who plays a staid political conformist, in the pages of The Financial Times, and recites with a certain rhetorical flair, the cliches of the current iteration of the political orthodoxy, as … Continue reading →

After Mr. Schama’s praise of Mrs. Clinton in the pages of the Financial Times : …will managerial omnicompetence be enough to see her and the US through what is shaping up to be the ugliest crisis of political legitimacy to afflict the republic … Continue reading →

Any cliche about Putin The Terrible not written here can be attributed to the exigencies of moving forward in Mr. Stephens’ attempt to promulgate a ‘New Pragmatism’, in regards to Putin. Look at it as a means to an end, … Continue reading →

Headline: The assault on Aleppo is a moral test for the west Sub-headline: Will anyone stop Russia turning the city into another Grozny, asks David Gardner A perfectly executed piece of propaganda, with the central character being Putin The Terrible. … Continue reading →

Headline:The war for America’s conservative soul Sub-headline: The leadership crisis afflicting the Republicans is a broader problem across the west The reader is inclined to muse, or even be mildly amused, over the political theology of the ‘conservative soul’ in … Continue reading →