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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

The Sunday Times deframes Jeremy Corbyn, via Ella Barons’s histerical cartoon!

Political Observer: The Times never surprises! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 27, 2025 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. May 16 2025 Headline: Keir Starmer’s popularity sinks to record low in poll Sub-headline: Drop is most acute among Labour voters in a sign that PM’s attempts to woo … Continue reading

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Ketanji Brown Jackson confronts the scelrotic Supreme Court!

Political Observer offers a small contribution ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 26, 2025 Editor: The final paragraphs of Ketanji Brown Jackson dissent, offer much more than the political chatter, of the would be Guardians of bourgeois political respectability, in the organs of … Continue reading

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Jeremy Corbyn & Zarah Sultana form a New Political Party

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 24, 2025 Editor : This is what the Independant offers its readership on the new party of Corbyn & Sultana! Headline: Jeremy Corbyn confirms plan to create new political party with Zarah Sultana Sub-headline: Ex-Labour … Continue reading

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Bret Stephens on the illegitimacy of the Gaza Genocide!

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

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@NYT is the Engine of the utterly corrupt & mendacious American Political Class!

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

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Under the rubric of Jonathan Turley makes sense!

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

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Philosopical Apprentice comments!

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

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Jonathan Turley raides Tom Wolfe’s “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s,”circa 1970!

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

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Reading and re-reading A.W. Moore’s essay in the London Review…

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

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Can it even be a surprise that Zionists Thomas L. Friedman & Bret Stephens take aim at Zohran Mamdani?

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

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