Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

If the summer, that has just started, has offered you scant amusements, let me offer a suggestion, read David Brooks’ essay titled  The Secular Society .  And experience an intellectual entertainment that demonstrates Mr. Brooks’ ability to trivialize and vulgarize … Continue reading →

“The Court is eager—hungry—to tell everyone its view of the legal question at the heart of this case. Standing in the way is an obstacle, a technicality of little interest to anyone but the people of We the People, who … Continue reading →

“Coverage today is based on decades-old data and eradicated practices. The formula captures States by reference to literacy tests and low voter registration and turnout in the 1960s and early 1970s. But such tests have been banned nationwide for over … Continue reading →

While doing some research on the internet I came across this 2009 essay at The Daily Beast by Mr. Richard Haass titled Why I Didn’t Resign.  Here is the telling part of his argument: ‘People often ask me why I … Continue reading →

Does this sound familiar: ‘The Solitary Leaker‘, The Social Misfit,’the atomization of society, the loosening of social bonds’? The shotgun wedding of Psychoanalysis and Pop Sociology finds a home in the mind, the ‘thought’ of David Brooks?