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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

Musk Melodrama as reported in The New York Times:

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 30, 2026 Live Updates: Elon Musk to Face Contentious Questions at OpenAI Trial On his third day of testimony, Elon Musk will be cross-examined by lawyers from OpenAI and Microsoft. His answers on the stand grew … Continue reading

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Andrew Tillett offers some valuable insights on Keir Starmer!

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 30, 2026 Starmer is doing plenty of damage to the Labour cause all by himself, so the premise is a bit rich. His party can expect a shellacking at the elections, with hundreds of councillors expected to … Continue reading

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This reader confronts : The Impossible Patient by Amia Srinivasan!

Former Analysand confronts the exhumation/reberth of Freud? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 28, 2026 Editor: 10,818 words is a challenge to the reader! I recall reading Freud, Biologist of the Mind by Frank J. Sulloway in 1979, Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory … Continue reading

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Reader here is a portion of Tom Peck’s insightful report on Keir Starmer.

Newspaper Reader offers a condensation of Mr. Pecks report. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 27, 2026 Headline: Speaker has Keir Starmer snookered with privileges committee vote Sub-Headline: Sir Lindsay Hoyle was in jovial mood, bantering about the baize action at the Crucible — then … Continue reading

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Below The Fold at The Financial Times.

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 27, 2026 https://www.ft.com/?segmentId=b0d7e653-3467-12ab-c0f0-77e4424cdb4c Extra Added Attraction:

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Robert Colvile evades the question of ‘Jury Trials’ via the 1989 Hillsborough disaster?

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 26, 2026 From The Guardian: MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes … Continue reading

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A Tribute to Rust Hills!

stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 23, 2026 LIVE from the NYPL:A Tribute to Rust Hills November 14, 2008 Download: Also available on: Rust Hills, the celebrated and storied fiction editor of Esquire, in that magazine’s last golden era as a publisher of great literary … Continue reading

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Bret Stephens: The New York Time’s Blunderbuss!

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 22, 2026 The reader of Bret Stephens latest what to name it? University administrators sometimes ask how their institutions can best serve democracy. For decades, many believed that their role was to serve as instruments of … Continue reading

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The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

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Hey SpectatorDaily, where is the report on ‘MP Zarah Sultana suspension from the House of Commons for calling Prime Minister Keir Starmer a liar.’?

Does speaking the truth about Tony Blair’s political catimite, cut too close to the marrow of British Misogyny! Way past Time for Starmer to go? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 21, 2026 Yours: Tony Benn’s restive ghost !

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