Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Mr. Rachman’s hysterically charged first few paragraphs : Syriza have won the Greek election. But, perhaps just as startling, the “far left” party is making considerable headway in the struggle to win over elite opinion in the west. Many mainstream … Continue reading →

M.S. is located in Amsterdam and perhaps her/his distance led to the development of a severe case of strategic myopia: the Republicans have made a bad bet on their 2014 victory at the polls, with 36.6% of eligible voters taking … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce does his best to appeal to the Republican readers of The Financial Times by producing as boring and cliche ridden a commentary on the State of the Union address, as the speech by the president. See this rhetorical … Continue reading →

What worries me as an atheist is what Islamophobia has become in the wake of the Paris murders, not that it hasn’t reached such a pitch that one’s conscience was daily pricked by events and the propaganda that was/is it’s … Continue reading →

Neo-Conservative Mr. Goldberg begins his long essay, French Prime Minister : ‘I Refuse to use This Term Islamophobia’ with these paragraphs: The prime minister of France, Manuel Valls, has emerged over the past tumultuous week as one of the West’s … Continue reading →

Mr. Miller is nothing if not dependable in the manufacture of Zionist apologetics, even as Bibi is hardly qualified as a sympathetic political protagonist, Mr. Miller does his best . Although he is careful, in this instance, to open with … Continue reading →

This is my reply to Mr Carlstrom’s essay on the Foreign Policy web site titled From Herzl to Hebdo. Here is an enlightening  excerpt from Mr. Netnayhu’s address to the Paris synagog: Our president was right when he said that … Continue reading →

Mr. Douthat defends blasphemers as necessary to the ‘liberal order’ of the West, using the attack and murders at Charlie Hebdo as his eventual point of reference, although the first order of business is a statement of principals. 1) The … Continue reading →

Perhaps,Mayor de Blasio sees Broken Windows Policing as failed i.e.both in terms of the legacy of Stop and Frisk and possibly as the back door for making up municipal budgetary shortages by means of issuing of tickets with hefty fines. … Continue reading →

Mr. Strauss needs a much better lawyer! Mr. Rosen, opening his essay on Strauss, with his long and ennui inducing comments on Mr. Bellow’s novel Ravelstein was cunning literary padding. Mr. Bellow wrote the same novel many times, Ravelstein being … Continue reading →