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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

@rcolvile and the NHS: the political infatuations of Mrs. Thatcher are re-born Again,Again & Again…

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 03, 2025 Editor: the reader might wonder at the opening paragarph of Mr. Colviles broadside of the NHS. A member of The Gentry opines via a sterotype ! Here’s a very old joke about an Irish … Continue reading

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In praise of Janan Ganesh, from September 6, 2020!

StephenKMackSD. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 03, 2025 Janan Ganesh’s Hipster L.A. American Writer comments Posted on September 6, 2020 by stephenkmacksd Mr. Ganesh is my favorite flâneur! He can write a feuilleton, the rhetoric of the Sunday Supplement’s decorous chatter, like no other writer in … Continue reading

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From their comfortable offices of The Economist Neo-Cons, hew to the Zanny Menton Beddoes Party Line!

Newspaper Reader attempts to confront The Economist Political Melodrama! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 02, 2025 In the Calculated/Manufactured Historical Haze of the Ukanian War, what stands out to the Reader of The Economist, is its ever growing Political Hysteria. The Reader need … Continue reading

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Jack McCordick reviews ‘The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West’ By Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska. At TNR.

Political Observer shares these 717 words, by Jack McCordick, with his readership! stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 28, 2025 Editor: For The New Republic to publish a long critical evaluation of ‘The Technological Republic’, after the Clintons, Obama and Biden Neo-Liberalism & War … Continue reading

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‘Charlemagne’, the political creature of The Economist, helps The Reader choose “Mr. Europe”!

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 27, 2025 Europe | Charlemagne Which European should face off against Trump and Putin? Macron, Tusk, Costa: the runners and riders for the job from hell Editor: It hardly seems to matter in this age, that … Continue reading

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A Radosław (Radek) Sikorski sampler, or the many lives of a Neo-Con!

Political Observer on the Imperatives of History. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 24, 2025 A YEAR after his headline-grabbing speech in Berlin, in which he called for German leadership of Europe, Poland’s foreign minister Radosław (Radek) Sikorski has launched another bold initiative. In a speech (pdf) … Continue reading

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The Guardian Reports, via Reuters, on the status of The Eric Adams.

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 24, 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/eric-adams-corruption-case-new-york Political Observer.

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@TheEconomist’s Putin Mind Reading Act is not without merit?

Newpaper Reader wonders, in print. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 19, 2025 Editor: Paragraph 1: The highlighted sentence fragment is pure speculation! Judged by the din of Russian propaganda and the despair among some Europeans, Vladimir Putin has never been closer to winning his … Continue reading

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The New Statesman of the political present is a betreyel of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, & prominent members of the Fabian Society!

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 18, 2025 My Friend’s at The New Statesman keep me informed about their desertion of the Left, of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw and other prominent members of the Fabian Society! But the … Continue reading

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Is Andrew Moravcsik a Neo-Liberal ?

Political Observer directs your attention to the final sentence of his ‘review/pastiche’ stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 17, 2025 Review The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France’s Political Crisis Reviewed by Andrew Moravcsik March/April 2022 Published on February 22, 2022 This updated … Continue reading

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