Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

When all else fails a bit of Anti-Putin propaganda is always welcome at The Financial Times! But the choice of Mr. Service to deliver this inflammatory polemic is neither surprising nor out of place, as The Financial Times is, to … Continue reading →

The ‘sea change’ is upon us, Mr. Corbyn and his reckless Left comrades, yet even the political rationalist, the elder statesmen of the FT, Mr. Wolf, speaks in the same hysterical rhetoric that dominates the political conversation, although strategically muted. … Continue reading →

From the image that precedes this essay, a crudely reproduced, by Alamy/Getty Images, of an old Soviet Social Realist painting of Lenin, adapted with the head of Mr. Corbyn and the Union Jack: the re-purposing old Soviet propaganda to the … Continue reading →

If you had any doubt as to the direction of Lord Patten’s review of Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist, by Niall Ferguson might take, this sentence assuages any doubt the reader might have entertained: What these passages admittedly do is to … Continue reading →

Surely one shouldn’t be surprised at the screeching anti-leftism of the Neo-Cons. Considering that Irving Kristol and his fellow travelers started out as leftists. For confirmation of this assertion see Murray Friedman’s ‘The Neoconservative Revolution, Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping … Continue reading →

From footnote 81 in Freud’s Paranoid Quest, a quotation from K.R. Eissler’s  ‘Talent and Genius: The Fictitious  Case of Tausk contra Freud: Here is a rationalization that could be applied to Heidegger as well as Freud.  Followed by this shameful … Continue reading →

Title this essay ‘The Political Otherness of Jeremy Corbyn’: the Old/New Party Line of the apologists for Neo-Liberalism/Austerity and it’s successor Corporatism: ‘ He is firmly against Europe’s planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the United States.’ The Oxbridgers … Continue reading →

Mr. John Lloyd provides an interesting, almost compelling political travelogue, yet it is lopsided in that the specter that haunts ‘The West’ is that the once ascendant dogmas of Neo-Liberalism have, in sum, been shown that it was a political/civic … Continue reading →

Mr. Capiro, thank you for your comment. It is easy to agree with Mr. Oppenheimer, in his conclusion: ‘My opinion: If Maduro wants to prove to the world that this year’s legislative elections will not be a sham, he should … Continue reading →

Pay attention to this sentence as demonstrative of The Financial Times argument, if that is what this collection of low grade insults and retrograde Neo-Liberal apologetics can be called: ‘Yet the longer he stays, the more he will tarnish the … Continue reading →