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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

Headline:’Argentina agog after Milei promotes crypto that crashed’

Posted on February 17, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

The Great Man faulters? stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 16, 2025 President Javier Milei’s backing of the crypto token $Libra that collapsed in hours is a story that the administration is hastily trying to rewrite amid calls for impeachment and international media attention. … Continue reading →

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Should the reader recall Elia Kazan’s ‘A Face in the Crowd’ when thinking about the rise of JD Vance?

Posted on February 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader & Political Cynic. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 16, 2025 The opening paragraphs of JD Vance speech should not surprise! It is the usual Trump strategy of causing intentional disequlibian, in sum putting American Allies on the defensive. It’s the Trump … Continue reading →

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[COPY] Lippman’s jewishness 02/09/2025

Posted on February 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

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Jonathan Freedland and other political fabulists: On Time & Opportunism, held aloft via an inexhaustible Victimology!

Posted on February 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 14, 2025 Editor: For those of ‘us’ with a long memory, who can forget Jonathan Freedland’s act of Defamation against Jeremy Corbyn. Headline:Jeremy Corbyn is either blind to antisemitism – or he just doesn’t care Sub-headline … Continue reading →

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Max Seddon,Christopher Miller @FT, view Donald Trump as the betrayer of Western Hegemony!

Posted on February 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader’s critical anlysis of The Financial Times’ propaganda! stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 13, 2025 War in Ukraine Headline: Donald Trump opens the door to Vladimir Putin’s grandest ambitions Sub-headline: Russian leader wants a new security architecture to give his country a … Continue reading →

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Janan Ganesh of the ever changing registers of ‘thought’?,’political convenience’ & always wraped in self-congratulation!

Posted on February 10, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 10, 2025 Editor : For those of us who have not read this Stendahl novel, here is Penguin Random House to the rescue: The Red and the Black Reader’s Guide By Stendhal https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/298093/the-red-and-the-black-by-stendhal/9780140447644/readers-guide In Stendhal’s The … Continue reading →

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On the Political Alchemy of Janan Ganesh: The Marriage of the Beguiling & the Reprehensible?

Posted on February 7, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 07, 2025 As usual Janan Ganesh has a lively and insightful conversation with himself -its like a fast moving current in a river of ideas, speculations, and just plain political chatter – some call this … Continue reading →

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@TheEconomist on ‘Europe’s Gaullists, Atlanticists, denialists and Putinists & ‘Gitane-puffing philosophe’…

Posted on February 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 06, 2025 Editor: The first two senteses are vintage Wooldridge/Micklethwait Oxbridger dullwitted slur, against a long gone caricature of Left Pariaians, like Sartre? Can a country still call itself an ally of America if America is … Continue reading →

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Buenos Aires Herald: Thursday, February 6, 2025.

Posted on February 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

https://buenosairesherald.com/ stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 06, 2025

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Don’t bother with Neo-Con Bret Stephen’s latest diatribe, go directly to his source Jennifer Mittelstadt’s @NYT essay !

Posted on February 6, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader: Mr. Stephens, when he isn’t screecing, renders the jejune in it’s rancid state! stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 05, 2025 Editor: The final paragraphs of Jennifer Mittelstadt’s essay is to say the least bleak, that hallowed ‘Post-War Liberal Order’ is at … Continue reading →

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