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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 @NYT never disppoints its respectable bourgeois readership: David French maladroitley avoids the Gaza Genocide…

Political Cynic grows weary of Political/Ethical Mendacity. Think of political crime of David Brooks’ ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces’ as the possible/aguable political beach-head? stephenkmacksd.com/ May 08, 2025 Editor: The opening paragraphs of Mr. French’s The war in Gaza … Continue reading

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How Deepley Entrenched are Lippmann’s celebrated ‘Technocrats’? Wedded to Cotten Mather’s ‘Spectral Evidence’?

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ May 06, 2025 Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. Marco Rubio’s Soulless Crusade The U.S. secretary of state stands for no principle other than serving the man who appointed him. By Howard W. French, … Continue reading

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Le Monde’s Arnaud Leparmentier on the ‘Wall Street Journal’s’ call for a ‘François Mitterrand Moment’: In what political world does this resonate?

Old Socialist on the utter decline of Western Newspapers! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 06, 2025 Headline: The ‘Wall Street Journal’ calls on Trump to take the path of former French Socialist president François Mitterrand Sub-headline: The financial daily, which closely reflects the … Continue reading

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Robert Colvile on ‘Reformageddon’?

The Critic, after Sheridan. stephenkmacksd.com/ May 04, 2025 Headline: Reformageddon suggests Tories and Nigel Farage could help each other Sub-headline: Any party that can win both Kent and Durham needs to be taken very seriously indeed. https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/reform-tories-nigel-farage-d396ql080 Mr. Colevile is … Continue reading

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From June 29, 2024: On Jonathan Freedland as Truth Teller!

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ May 04, 2025 Jonathan Freedland never disappoints, except in the matter truth, facts or valid argument! It’s his habit of being! Political Observer engages in some Political Archaeology. Headline: It’s risky, but Joe Biden needs to give … Continue reading

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Jonathan Freedland on Trump : ‘One hundred days in, Donald Trump faces a problem: he can rage, but he can’t govern’

Political Observer traces the poitical evolution of Freedland from Corbyn defamer, to Trump would be diagnostician ! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 02, 2025 One of Mr. Freedland’s talents is to self-present as a political chameleon, who changes political hues at conveient political … Continue reading

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David Brook’s ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces’ sets the tone, when he attempts to locate ‘paganism’ as the root of Trumpism!

Political Observer on the bumptious Mr. Brooks! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 01, 2025 Reader here is a link to my commentary on Brooks’ notorious defence of the War On Terror. Editor : Mr. Brooks has become a more adroit propagandist since the … Continue reading

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The Rule is anything written by @rcolvile: Approach With Caution !

Political Observer, with the help of Jean-Louis Missika & Dominique Wolton and James and Marie McIntosh. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 27, 2025 Editor: Mr. Colevile’s voice is very distinctive: The Reader cannot compare him in any way to @JohnJCrace of The Guardian, … Continue reading

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@FT & miranda.green@ft.com ask the probing ? : ‘What makes ‘Reform-curious’ Labour voters so hard to woo back’

Political Cynic comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 27, 2025 Editor: The headline of Miranda Green’s would-be commentary is exhausted in a marriage of the headline & sub-headline, that trades on the well worn political place holders , wedded to current jargon. Opinion … Continue reading

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In attempting to read ‘Ross Douthat’ ‘Condition of America’ Interviewed by Nick Burns, in New Left Review …..

In the guise of Political Observer, my attempt to satirized Mr. Douthat: I missed the actual thinker/writer of his books, rather that his opinion columns in The New York Times? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 26, 2025 Editor: For the occasional reader of … Continue reading

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