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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

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Posted on December 10, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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David Brooks,President Obama, Cass Sunstein and Regulatory Reform by Poltical Observer

Posted on December 10, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

The great piano virtuoso Arturo Benedette Michhelangelli is said to have arrived at concert appearances just as the curtain rose, and to play the entirety of his concert in his overcoat. Here is David Brooks in his latest essay at … Continue reading →

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Leslie Gelb and the Joyce Haber ploy by Myra Breckenridge

Posted on December 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

All my readers must remember the elegant prose,the thought of that dear Hollywood wordsmith Joyce Haber, and her many contributions to our national discourse.( If your reading this, do not pretend that you don’t know this writer and her exalted … Continue reading →

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The Republic is under concerted attack by Publius

Posted on December 4, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Day by day we see the cumulative evidence of the failure of Capitalism and the concomitant victory of authoritarian principles and practices of governance,these essays are highly instructive: Detroit in a hostile takeover bid at the CBS News web site. … Continue reading →

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George F. Will on Newt Gingrich: Some Thoughts by Myra Brekenridge

Posted on December 4, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

If you are looking for some political entertainment while the Republic self-destructs, amid the clamor and bad faith of career politicians, that stumble over themselves,and each other, trying in vain to prove their fealty to that modern hybrid, the National … Continue reading →

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Redux by David Brooks: Episode CCXXIII of The American Political Melodrama

Posted on December 3, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

David Brooks in his latest essay titled The Spirit of Enterprise inhabits the spirit of a besotted lover, but the love object is Capitalism and the villains are the lowly, lazy Southern European countries of Spain, Italy and Greece. It … Continue reading →

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Max Boot on the Clear and Present Danger of Iran: Episode CCXXI of The American Political Melodrama by Political Observer

Posted on December 2, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Max Boot in his December 1,2011 column for the Los Angeles Times titled The Iran Threat fully commits himself to the analogies of the rise of Nazism and the dithering and equivocations of the politicians, who should have been more … Continue reading →

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