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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

The Adam Schiff & Kash Patel’s ‘Political Melodrama’.

Political Cynic on Zionist Shill Schiff & Patel as FBI Stooge: The exchange of insults is revelatory and entertaining: The Gentlemans Club of the Senate is now dead? stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 18, 2025 On Schiff : On Patel : Dear Chair … Continue reading

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What William Buckley and Charlie Kirk had in common

Harold Meyerson’s essay is worth your time and attention! stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 17, 2025 Meyerson on TAP What William Buckley and Charlie Kirk had in common As George Will noted, both made ‘politics fun’ (to be sure, even while disparaging equal … Continue reading

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Jonathan Turley Americas Self-appointed Lawyer, follows in the footsteps of Arlen Spector and Edward Jay Epstein!

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 15, 2025 Editor: the opening paragraph of Mr. Turleys rant is well past its sale date! Below is my column in the Hill on murder of Charlie Kirk, the latest victim of our age of rage. … Continue reading

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Buenos Aries Herald : September 14, 2025!

The News from a reliable Source! Yours, Political Observer stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 14, 2025

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@NYT reminds the reader of political murder & the mendacity of Gloria Steinem, Hillary Clinton’s best friend!

Queer Atheist. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 14, 2025 Reader recall? Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique? Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics” (1970), Eva Figes’s Patriarchal Attitudes (1970), Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (1949)? Gloria Steinem was/is the respectable bourgeois version of ‘Feminism’! … Continue reading

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On The Theopolitics of Reinhold Niebuhr by Political Observer

stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 13, 2025 On The Theopolitics of Reinhold Niebuhr by Political Observer Posted on May 24, 2012 by stephenkmacksd I’ve just finished a Reinhold Niebuhr biography by Richard Fox published in 1985. That I find Mr. Niebuhr repugnant as person and Christian … Continue reading

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Lachlan Murdoch’s Investiture: Viewed through The Economist’s Optics.

Political Observer’s vigorous pruning … stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 13, 2025 Headline:Lachlan Murdoch, media’s newest mogul Sub-headline:Fox’s decades-long succession battle is finally over Editor: The Reader just has to wonder at the Economist chatter about the ‘Investiture of Lachlan Murdoch’. These Oxbridgers … Continue reading

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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Raymond Geuss, Seeing Double. Polity Press, 2024, 180 pp., $22.95 (pbk), ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-6088-2. Reviewed by Espen Hammer!

Philosophical Apprentice. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 13, 2025 https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/seeing-double/ Philosophical Apprentice

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Reader don’t go to The Economist, that tired old rag! Read the Buenos Aires Herald, for Actual News as reported by Agentinians, not Oxbrider Neo- Colonialists!

Political Observer on the value of Buenos Aires Herald! stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 13, 2025 Political Observer.

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DER SPIEGEL

stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 12, 2025

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