Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

All that is missing from this wan political melodrama is The Donald tying poor Hillary to the train tracks, in all the grey herky jerky of a silent film, from the last century. Mrs. Clintons ‘problems’ are of her own … Continue reading →

This essay reads as if it’s main ideas were hastily written on a napkin, over a hurried lunch, complete with the equivocating asterisk. Well, because the writer isn’t quite convinced that Trump is a fascist, in the sense that Mr. … Continue reading →

Headline: A Misplaced Mea Culpa for Neoliberalism Sub-headline :  The International Monetary Fund should stick to its knitting and tackle the decline in productivity Opening paragraph: As an all-purpose insult, “neoliberalism” has lost any meaning it might once have had. … Continue reading →

I’m beginning to catch up after my brief absence of thirteen days, by reading The Financial Times with Martin Wolf’s essay from May 17, 2016 titled ‘Failing elites are to blame for unleashing Donald Trump’. Mr. Wolf demonstrates his bad … Continue reading →

The dismal record on Charter Schools! http://charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com/ Another Ohio Charter School Scandal–Becoming Routine  http://www.salon.com/2015/10/11/the_ugly_charter_school_scandal_arne_duncan_is_leaving_behind_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2015/01/01/exposing_the_charter_school_lie_michelle_rhee_louis_c_k_and_the_year_phony_education_reform_revealed_its_true_colors/ http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/05/13/ohio-accosted-on-charter-school-scandal-records.htm On the utter bankruptcy of Neo-Libralism i.e. the collapsed fiction of The Free Market: Undoing the Demos, Neo-Liberalism’s Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/undoing-demos … Continue reading →

Ironic: Vietnam decision-making system worked ‘Les Gelb, a former Brookings fellow and co-author of the 1979 Brookings Institution Press book The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked—which is being re-released this month as a Brookings Classic—discusses the influence the Vietnam … Continue reading →

The emerging Party Line for the New Democrats is that ‘we’ must unite behind the Neo-Conservative, in all but name, Hillary Clinton. To fight the Fascist menace of Trump. But before the celebration of unity begins: Clinton’s Hawk-in-Waiting If Hillary … Continue reading →

One has to wonder out loud as to where Mr. Garton Ash has been. David Caute’s book ‘Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic’ was published in July of 2015. Which is a searching historical case … Continue reading →

Should a regular reader of the Financial Times be at all surprised by the the title of John Paul Rathbone’s essay ‘Demise of Brazilian leftism will reverberate across the Americas’ or the sub-headline: ‘Latin Americans no longer tolerate corruption as … Continue reading →

You have to find something quite arresting about Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay. It sounds like some old club-man complaining, or better yet grousing, to his fellows in the wainscoted interior of an exclusive club in some bad old Hollywood movie. … Continue reading →