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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

Re-Posting: David Bromwich in two keys, in the same octave! Posted on October 2, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

Posted on September 27, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 26, 2025 David Bromwich in two keys, in the same octave! Posted on October 2, 2024 by stephenkmacksd Political Observer comments. Here is my commentary on Mr. Bromwich’s American Breakdown in 2018 in The London Review of Books : The ‘insights’ of david.bromwich@yale.edu : a … Continue reading →

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On the ersatz Political Theology of David Brooks. & the valorization of Charlie Kirk!

Posted on September 27, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Queer Atheist on the New York Times and Political Conformity at any cost! stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 26, 2025 Editor: Mr. Brooks column of Sept. 25, 2025 provides a ‘Political Theology’, in five paragraphs! I’ve placed in italics some of the key points, … Continue reading →

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Buenos Aires Herald Thursday, September 25, 2025.

Posted on September 25, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

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Is Religious Hysteric Amy Coney Barrett the natural successor to Antonin Scalia’s hatred of Vatican II, or just one more Neo-Confederate ?

Posted on September 25, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Political Observer comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 25, 2025 Editor: The curious reader just needs to seach below! Katzenbach, 383 U. S., at 328 and 329 etc. Opinion and Dissent Posted on June 27, 2013 by stephenkmacksd https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/21/listening-to-the-law-review-amy-coney-barrett Political Observer.

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Sarkozy given five-year sentence in Libya case, will be incarcerated even if he appeals. Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy at his trial over the alleged financing of his 2007 …

Posted on September 25, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 25, 2025 Thursday, September 25, 2025 Newspaper Reader.

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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:

Posted on September 25, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Hume’s Imagination Tito Magri, Hume’s Imagination, Oxford University Press, 2023, 512pp., $165.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192864147. Reviewed by Donald C. Ainslie, University of Toronto, Sep 25, 2025 https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/humes-imagination/

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Bret Stephens’ ‘Free Imaginative Variation’ in a minor key!

Posted on September 25, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 24, 2025 Editor: A very short quotation from Bret Stephens latest exercise of free imaginative variation, of September 23, 2025 in The New York Times: … It’s a cliché, but can’t be said enough, that speech … Continue reading →

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Greg Lukianoff is co-author, with Jonathan Haidt, of “The Coddling”:These political hacks shamelessly borrowed from Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind” to promote Themselves & Sales!

Posted on September 25, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 23, 2025 Editor: Greg Lukianoff is co-author, with Jonathan Haidt, of “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.” These political hacks, moderled themselves after … Continue reading →

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America’s Self-Appointed Lawyer Jonathan Turley names & shames: Hillary Clinton, the utterly nebulious construct of ‘the left’ as political place holder?

Posted on September 25, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 23, 2025 Editor: I’m old enough to recall another time and place in America, and its celebrated lawyer Louis Nizer! His New York Time obituary of Nov. 11, 1994 is revelatory. I provide a sample of … Continue reading →

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@georgeeaton of the New Statesman: Repeats The Big Lie of ‘Reviewing politics and culture since 1913’: Sidney and Beatrice Webb & George Bernard Shaw have been betrayed by Blairite Stooges!

Posted on September 25, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

American Observer comments! stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 22, 2025 Editor: That Kier Starmer has ever represented anything other than political oppotunism and its twin utter mediocricy! That is the reason that Tony Blair chose him and his political catamite! Editor: This first … Continue reading →

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