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StephenKMackSD. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 18, 2026 https://www.ft.com/content/0baf4e30-3501-4aec-a189-5c49e40908aa

Newspaper Reader offers ‘A Janan Ganesh Cornucopia’! stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 18, 2026 Headline: Maga will regret embracing Europe’s hard right Sub-headline: Nationalists on the continent have historically opposed America more than anything else https://www.ft.com/content/0baf4e30-3501-4aec-a189-5c49e40908aa Some selective quotation from Ganesh’s essay, for … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 17, 2026 Editor: Civilization by Roger Osborne A New History of the Western World https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/362231/civilization-by-roger-osborne/9780099526063 Marco Rubio gave a speech Saturday to the Munich Security Conference in which he extolled an ideal that’s supposedly long out of fashion. … Continue reading →

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Is the utterly wayward, indeed bumptious Starmer, about to be caught in the quick-sand of of the unamed Peter Mandelson? The fact that Mandelson is not ever mentioned in political essay leades the … stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 16, 2026 Editor: Since … Continue reading →

stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 15, 2026 Life & Arts Liberals should mourn the passing world Why apologise for what was the most successful international order in history? Best regards! StephenKMackSD

(A bold leap is what we need) stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 15, 2026 Headline: A bold leap is what we need. We’d take the pain for the promise of growth. Sub-headline: Wes Streeting’s criticism still rings true — growth is the most … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader . stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 14, 2026 The Atlantic hires David Brooks as a staff writer New home for his writing, and to launch a video podcast The Atlantic is announcing that David Brooks, who for years has contributed memorable Atlantic cover stories and … Continue reading →

February 9, 2026 stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 14, 2026 The Buenos Aires Herald! Bad Bunny’s Nuestra América The singer’s Super Bowl Halftime Show showed that, regardless of any particular flag, artistic sensitivity is Latin culture’s true identity For twenty years, I taught … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 14, 2026 Editor: Wooldridge begins with these paragraphs and a quote of form Kipling’s “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” . Rudyard Kipling has gone far out of fashion. Born in Bombay, in British India, in … Continue reading →