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Philosopical Apprentice. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 29, 2025 Editor: The opening paragaraph Shaping Ends: Reflections on Fukuyama Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man has been widely regarded as a celebration of the triumph of the West.footnote1 Its message, on the accepted … Continue reading →

2025.06.14 stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 27, 2025 … https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/intuition-in-kant-the-boundlessness-of-sense/

Michael Ignatieff of Jun 26, 2025. Philosophical Apprentice. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 27, 2025 Who can forget Mr. Ignatieff’s fawning interview with Isaiah Berlin? It’s hard to understand Berlin, but Ignatieff contiues as if every word was… Editor: What might the reader … Continue reading →

Old Socialist’s brief comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 26, 2025 As pelude to Sullivan’s 4313 word diatribe, this reader recalls his entusiasm for The War On Terror that faded, and his entusism for the ‘Bell Curve’ of Charles Murray. Even the New … Continue reading →

Philospical Apprentice. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 26, 2025 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n08/katrina-forrester/tocqueville-anticipated-me Editor: The opening paragraph of this essay via George Soros, offers the reader insight into both political/philosopical actors! In October 2011, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that George Soros had violated … Continue reading →

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 25, 2025 June 26, 2025: In the face of the continuing Gaza Genocide, The Toxic Myth of Jewish Victimhood repeated ad nauseam, now rules as if a truism beyond doubt, or even evidence! Read @NYT Zionist … Continue reading →

Literary Observer re-aquaints himself with Ganesh as *flâneur? stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 25, 2025 Headline: How Los Angeles made the modern world Sub-headline: The troubled city has done more than most to shape how people now live https://www.ft.com/content/7f416e2b-a89b-4083-b3c2-77461d3986c4 It’s been sometime since … Continue reading →

Old Socialist opines: The Political Class of America and the EU are mired in their own self-serving mendacity! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 16, 2025 Peter Oborne, associate editor of Middle East Eye, argues that by threatening the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, … Continue reading →

Political Observer : Chaos is the crulest of masters: The Iliad offers what? stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 16, 2025 On Sunday, June 15, night fell on Tehran. The city of 14 million people had become a ghost town, deserted except for long … Continue reading →

Political Observer on ‘Mathias Döpfner is chair and CEO of Axel Springer, POLITICO’s parent company’: Think of Mathias Döpfner as the In House Anne Applebaum, or Jeffrey Goldberg of Politico ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 16, 2025 Editor: Britannica provides a vauable … Continue reading →