Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Unknown's avatar

About stephenkmacksd

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

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

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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!

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

@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!

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Buenos Aires Herald: Sunday, September 21, 2025.

stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 21, 2025

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Tina Brown can’t resist the temtation of a Royal Ass to Kiss: King Charles III!

Political Cynic on the King & Headline:’Prince Charles accepted €1m cash in suitcase from sheikh’! stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 21, 2025 … Editor: Look what Tina Brown missed! June 25 2022 Headline: Prince Charles accepted €1m cash in suitcase from sheikh Sub-headline: … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Economist, Self-Avertisement & Oxbridger self-infatuation.

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 20, 2025 There can be no doubt that The Economist, under the direction of toxic Zanny Minton Beddoes, former partner in crime with Jeffrey Sachs, during the Post-Soviet period. See Stephen F. Cohen & Katrina Vanden … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Bari Weiss is a well paid Zionist Political Histeric, who will soon be in charge of CBS News!

Weiss opines on the death of Charlie Kirk a semimal moment in American History, forgetting the Murders of Malcom X, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, MLK, John & Bobby Kennedy…… ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 19, 2025 By Bari Weiss Hi folks. This … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

David Brooks never stops pretending that he is both Sage & Prophet. And Tuned into the dark recesses of the American Political Psyche?

Political Cynic attempts to come to terms with Brooks pepetual mendacity, masquerading as an ersatz Wisdom! stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 19, 2025 Headline: The Era of Dark Passions Editor: My patience with Mr. Brooks ‘morlizing chatter’ is exhausted by his self-congratulation: Even … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Jimmy Kimmell and ‘The Rebellion Against The Elites in France’?!

American Fellow Traveler. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 18, 2025 The very notion that Jimmy Kimmell represent A Clear and Present Danger to what remaines of the American Republic, is on its face BULLSHIT! Look to The New Democrats i.e. The utterly Corrupt … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment