Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

America’s favorite Straussian, Mr. Fukuyama, can be depended upon to hit the high spots of the perennial Political Moralizing that infects the hectoring rhetoric of the Right. His concern for the ‘poor’ the ‘underclass’ finds the perfect opportunity, to demonstrate … Continue reading →

guest-llanmjn, Thank you for your comment. The very condition of ‘decline’ is an indictment of the Neo-Liberal model, or should I say the perception of ‘decline’. The very real question is this: where are the jobs that can help the … Continue reading →

Is American Power unassailable? Our politics is ruled by two wings of the same Neo-Liberal Party. The Democrats who willfully discarded the tradition of The New Deal for a politics highly tinctured with Reaganism, that made the New Democrats electable … Continue reading →

One can only marvel at an utterly obsequious Congress in it’s kowtowing to Mr, Netanyahu. See Daniel Larison’s essay at The American Conservative for a withering evaluation of that herd of independent minds: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-disgraceful-spectacle-in-congress/ The Hill reports that 56 Democratic … Continue reading →

Title Mr. Luce’s essay A Maladroit Apology for Neo-Liberalism with Mayor Emanuel as the main character, seeking to overcome the Neo-Marxist Syriza stand-in Mr Garcia. Some American Political Melodramas have been built on lesser foundations, many of them authored by … Continue reading →

Mr.Sergei Guriev presents his case on the Nemtsov murder with a simulacrum of eloquence, but it is easy to see the propaganda triumph of the catechism of the New Cold War in his essay. In the fact that conspiracy theory, … Continue reading →

Putinology has replaced the Kremlinology of the Old Cold War, and it is just as unreliable: Strobe Talbott at Brookings is an experienced practitioner of those black arts, old and new! This political theology is framed in the shopworn vocabulary … Continue reading →

A moving tribute to Mr. Nemtsov, yet how convenient that he should be murdered at such a pivotal historical moment! Or is Conspiracy Theory verboten at his publication, except in regard Putin? War hysteria/propaganda, in the West, has reached a … Continue reading →

Why erratic? Having explained why I owe whatever understanding of our social world I may possess largely to Karl Marx, I now want to explain why I remain terribly angry with him. In other words, I shall outline why I … Continue reading →

Skip27, Thank you for your comment. Faced with the complete failure of Neo-Liberalism what is called for, even demanded, is more Neo-Liberalism. See Philip Mirowski’s Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste. (http://www.versobooks.com/books/1613-never-let-a-serious-crisis-go-to-waste) For a bracing forensic of the … Continue reading →