Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

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 →

Old Socialist on the very elastic political standards of Jonathan Freedland & Fellow Travelers! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 13, 2025 Headline: We’re becoming inured to Trump’s outbursts – but when he goes quiet, we need to be worried Sub-headline: Across the US, … Continue reading →

Political Observer on the value of truth telling! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 13, 2025 As the crucial election looms in Greece later this month, newspapers have been full of pictures of demonstrations (or riots) in Athens. But there is another image hovering … Continue reading →

Political Observer’s Historical Recollections, of the once ascendant Micklethwait & Wooldridge! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 12, 2025 This reader just has to recall those ‘Best-Seelers’ authored by Micklethwait & Wooldridge. These books were the measuring device of the toxin of Neo-Liberalism , … Continue reading →

Political Dissident comments at lenkth! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 11, 2025 Editor: Mr. Adam Liptack: @NYT, in the person of @adamliptak takes aim at Ketanji Brown Jackson! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 08, 2025 Editor: The first paragraphs of Adam Liptak scolding chatter? Steeped in … Continue reading →

Political Observer: the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals after WWII rendered moot? stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 10, 2025 The fact that the whole American political class is now the captive of AIPAC and Adelson money are facts! A selective report gathered from Le … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 09, 2025 Mr. Tomasky’s potted history of the dismal failure ‘Third Party Candiates’ in American Elections, is about the Self-Rescue Project of The New Democrats, still led by the Clinton ménage. Hillary Clinton could not win an … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 08, 2025 Title: Desides the insults reservered for Greta Thunberg, Zohran Mamdani and Tucker Carlson, Bret Stephens in not a man of wit nor sensibility! Editor: I’ll begin my comentary at this point in Stephens … Continue reading →