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Philosopical Apprentice comments, stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 23, 2025 Headline: No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza It may seem harsh to say, but there is a glaring dissonance to the charge that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. To wit: … Continue reading →

Old Socialist! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 22, 2025 … Old Socialist!

Political Observer shares his commentary! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 22, 2025 Congress, Criminal law, Justice July 22, 2025 “A Drought”: Weiss Unloads on Lack of Support from Justice Department on Investigation of Hunter Biden As Hunter Biden continues to unleash profanity-laden attacks on Democrats, George Clooney, and … Continue reading →

stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 21, 2025 Editor : Heidegger and the Authority of the Philosopher. By Mark Thomas file:///C:/Users/steph/Downloads/Heidegger_and_the_Authority_of_the_Philo%20(1).pdf … Is it possible to treat an author as a philosophical authority and meet these requirements? I would argue that it is. This requires … Continue reading →

Old Socialist : Tom Wolfe is the shield/cover that Turley uses for his attack on ‘America’s Armchair Revolutionaries’ stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 19, 2025 America’s Armchair Revolutionaries: How the Left is Rediscovering Marxism as the Ultimate Virtue Signal By jonathanturley on July 19, 2025 … Continue reading →

Philosopical Apprentice. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 17, 2025 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicusby Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Michael Beaney.Oxford, 100 pp., £8.99, May 2023, 978 0 19 886137 9 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicusby Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Alexander Booth.Penguin, 94 pp., £14.99, December 2023, 978 0 241 68195 4 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicusby Ludwig … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 17, 2025 Editor: Friedman lectures Mamdani as if the Gaza Genocide were in a rear view mirror, of History. No surprise Friedman’s vacuous chatter is about feckless political conformity, practised over time, in The Paper … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 16, 2025 @NYT, in the person of @adamliptak takes aim at Ketanji Brown Jackson! Posted on July 8, 2025 by stephenkmacksd stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 08, 2025 Headline: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke Sub-headline: In … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 15, 2025 Headline: ‘I appreciate depreciation’ Katrina Forrester Sub-headline: Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Financeby Melinda Cooper. Princeton, 564 pp., £28, May 2024, 978 1 942130 93 2 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/katrina-forrester/i-appreciate-depreciation Editor: the quotation of the … Continue reading →

Posted on January 4, 2019 by stephenkmacksd I am reading ‘Becoming Freud’ and read this paragraph with amazement : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book-details/embed/#?secret=viZKs29FjE#?secret=s63PSG6JRx An apt analogy of Mr. Phillips book: a Studio Head, in the Golden Age of Hollywood, calling in The Wise Hack to do a re-write on a property. … Continue reading →