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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

At The Financial Times: Simon Kuper’s Political Palace Gossip & The Working Class, a comment by Almost Marx

After all the back biting gossip and display of ‘Class Disloyalty’, as entertaining as it was, Mr. Kuper bends low, to defend the coming economic consequences of the Brexit’s effect, on the wage earner whose £20,000 per year will be … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: The New Cold War is still with us, 2 ‘News Reports’& An Editorial, a comment by Political Realist

With the Brexit vote now an established fact, a crushing but momentary  defeat to the Neo-Liberal Cameron’s political ambition , the manufactured Labour  Antisemitism crisis in the momentary stasis of ‘investigation’, and Corbyn firmly established as leader of the Party, … Continue reading

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Vulcan Zakheim attacks Dove Bacevich, some thoughts by Political Reporter

Kudos to Mr. Bacevich. He has managed to evoke from one of The Vulcans a shrill defensive polemic, which at times recovers itself to make some trenchant but short lived observations, in which this policy maker defends not just the … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Christopher Caldwell on Trump & Trumpism, a comment by Political Reporter

It has been some time since we have read Mr. Caldwell in the pages of The Financial Times. As background to reading Caldwell on the American Trump phenomenon, and to further the readers knowledge of his idiosyncratic Neo-Conservative world view, … Continue reading

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At The New York Times: Monsignor Douthat on ‘The Myth of Cosmopolitanism’, a comment by American Writer

Monsignor Douthat’s remit as Opus Dei operative in American Life is to patrol the wombs of American women, to prattle on about ‘out of wedlock births’ the Mortal Sin of abortion and the general Moral Decline, as some of the … Continue reading

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Andrew Sullivan:Democracies end when they are too democratic, a comment by Political Observer

Here is where Mr. Sullivan’s essay actually begins, in his natural habitat, the cocktail party of movers and shakers in Washington D.C. ‘And so, as I chitchatted over cocktails at a Washington office Christmas party in December, and saw,…’ One … Continue reading

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At Rolling Stone: Matt Taibbi on The Brexit vote and The Elites, a comment by Political Reporter

Sam Rye posted a link to Mr. Taibbi’s compelling essay at the very stogy, not to speak of Corporatist Financial Times: http://on.ft.com/292vrCK Mr . Rye makes the soundest kind of argument that Mr. Taibbi makes a case of more cogency … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Gideon Rachman on Brexit Vote, some observations by Almost Marx

Headline: I do not believe that Brexit will happen Sub-Headline : There will be howls of rage, but why should extremists on both sides dictate how the story ends? Gideon Rachman is in high dungeon at the Brexit vote and … Continue reading

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My reply to Chris C. at Prospect

Chris C. Thank you for your comment. As Yanis Varoufakis pointed out the EU began life as a cartel, although eventually garnished with the trappings of Democracy, and from my point of view   needs to be reformed, from the ground … Continue reading

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At The Economist: Bagehot on the Brexiteers, A Pseudo-Psycho History, a comment by Philosophical Apprentice

I’ve been expecting Bagehot’s comment on the Brexit, but I wonder where he has been, and what he has not been reading? The Rebellion Against The Elites has been the Party Line at The Financial Times, the once sister publication … Continue reading

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