Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Mayor Emanuel is a Neo-Liberal, although not in the sense that President Obama is. The Mayor does not hide his particular brand of that odious utopianism, as the timid president did  behind the fading rhetoric of of 2008.The President has … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce strikes a less strident note than Mr. Barber did on July 5th in the Financial Times. In fact Mr. Barber’s essay reflects a case of full blown political hysterics, doom saying garnished with pertinent historical references. Everything but … Continue reading →

It must be said that it is truly impressive that the Financial Times has procured the services of Jacques Delors the ‘Icon of Europe’ according to Derk-Jan Eppink  in his ‘Life of a European Mandarin : Inside the Commission’, quite … Continue reading →

The Greeks are not yet asking for debt forgiveness, but an end to utterly failed Austerity: the ‘strong medicine’ of the IMF, that is prescribed regardless of circumstance, or more pointedly as the cure for the Welfare State as a … Continue reading →

Spoken like a true  Economic Moralist: Neo-Liberal!  See this essay by Ms. Tett at The Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/927efd1e-9c32-11e4-b9f8-00144feabdc0.html A telling excerpt from Ms. Tett’s essay via Benjamin Friedman: ‘Last summer I found myself in that spot for a conference, having … Continue reading →

As Xenos points out quite convincingly Strauss’ esoteric re-reading of the Tradition was an attempt at self-rescue, from his demonstrable philosophical propinquity with Schmitt. The American context necessitated a revisionism that showed Strauss as heroic philosophical trailblazer, rather than a … Continue reading →

Besides the usual, even obligatory, Left bashing, what leavens this serio-comic chatter, what rhetorically frames this essay is A Clockwork Orange and the ideas of the prominent Panglossian Steven Pinker. The Clockwork Olive is Mr. Ferguson’s attempt to meet the … Continue reading →

The Slow Mobilization Toward War With Putin Stephen Blank first published this with the Atlantic Council, a NATO front organization, how much more obvious need it be that this is New Cold War propaganda? The list of supporters/members of this … Continue reading →

Petros, Mr. Roberts comes from the American Tradition of the Declaration of Independence, the  Constitution and The Bill of Rights, all documents in the Enlightenment Tradition. So he believes in the primacy of the shared destiny of the Commonwealth, as … Continue reading →

If your going to play the role of political mandarin, as Mr. Wolf does in his essay, then what is called for is a complete honesty! Of course the tiresome but obligatory Anti-Left hysterics lead the way, Syriza, followed by … Continue reading →