Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

The Poles have a history of a pose of independence, this from the Economist of November 30, 2011, with the headline of : ‘Sikorski: hero or traitor? Backwash from Berlin’ What of reaction elsewhere? Readers may be surprised to hear … Continue reading →

Where else but breitbart.com, named after the craven political opportunist Andrew, comes this story, in all it’s white hysterical glory, that the historical inevitability of the revival of The Black Panther Party has happened! The model offered by Huey P. … Continue reading →

I have reached the point of complete exasperation with the self-proclaimed technocrats, the ones that Lippmann celebrated as the guardians against too much democracy, who have been not just wrong, but catastrophically wrong, on almost every ‘policy question’ since 2000 … Continue reading →

Ms. Tett begins her review of PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future, by Paul Mason with some interesting observations on Wikipedia, but it isn’t long before the usual Financial Times’ Anti-Left Hysterics becomes primary, not anything like a surprise. But notice … Continue reading →

If there is a successor to Edward Said, it is without doubt Pankaj Mishra. For proof  of this claim read his essay titled ‘The Sound of Cracking’, a review of two books cited below, in the August 27, 2015 edition … Continue reading →

For a challenging and insightful essay on Hayek see John Grey’s essay here: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/john-gray-friedrich-hayek-i-knew-and-what-he-got-right-and-wrong For a more complete examination of Hayek as thinker,writer,economist see this issue of Critical Review titled Hayek:The Good, The Bad,The Ugly. http://www.criticalreview.com/crf/current_issue25_34.html Political Observer

Mr. Weiss turns that ever useful Straussian device of packing an essay full to the brim with the argumentatively useful and the tangential, in equal measure, or even what might be politically useful information, to the business of obfuscation rather … Continue reading →

The Stephens essay is the perfect opportunity to re-post the Barber/Ganesh video, the title of which features the ‘soft left’, when what is at issue is the ‘hard left’ and the utter importance of the ‘centrists’ , which is, in … Continue reading →

You have to marvel at the Financial Times and their policy of Left political hysteria mongering, here are Lionel Barber and Janan Ganesh in a carefully staged, but strategically brief, political conversation. ‘FT editor Lionel Barber talks to political commentator … Continue reading →

I’m sorry to say that it sounds like Mr. Kay wrote this essay on his lunch hour. Now, I’m not saying that he didn’t have a point, and that it wasn’t well argued, in a self-serving kind of way. That … Continue reading →