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Political Observer comments! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 30, 2025 By The Free Press It’s Monday, June 29. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Arthur Brooks on … Continue reading →

stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 30, 2025 Episode MDVII of The American Political Melodrama: R2P Zealot Michael Ignatieff scolds ISIS ‘Fellow Traveler’ Pankaj Mishra in The New York Review of Books. A comment by Philosophical Apprentice Posted on March 19, 2017 by stephenkmacksd Mr. Ignatieff reviews … Continue reading →

Political Observer shares the wealth… stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 30, 2025 https://link.thetimes.co.uk/view/61951c6244cd095d046bd5eeo3ozm.1fgt/7df8c745

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 →