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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

@TheEconomist is a ‘World Historical Actor’ ?

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 04, 2025 Editor: The Economist ‘thinks of itself’ in the most self-congratulatory way! Briefing | Self-restraining Raj Headline: Even in India, bureaucracy is being curtailed Sub-headline: Many small steps could make a big difference In offices that used to … Continue reading

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Re-Posting: Old Socialist asks: Do you have the patience, for Anne Applebaum’s 7,896 word essay on ‘‘the internet mob, the office mob, or the peer-group mob’?

stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 01, 2021 stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 31, 2025 Anne Applebaum’s re-published essay: ‘The New Puritans’ from October 2021. That is framed by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne. Note that brevity is not an attribute of Neo-Cons: exhausting the readers patience, and short circuiting … Continue reading

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On the symbiotic relationship of @TheEconomist and YouGov.

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 31, 2025 Headline:How popular is Donald Trump? Last updated on January 29th 2025 FEW FIGURES have loomed as large in American political life as Donald Trump. Even out of office, the celebrity-turned-president has had an extraordinary … Continue reading

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The wisdom of Edward Snowden!

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 30, 2025 Editor :The Frame: Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense Senate hearing Skeptical senators ruthlessly questioned Trump’s national intelligence director nominee ahead of confirmation vote https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-hearing … Editor: Question: “Is Edward Snowden a … Continue reading

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The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist,from https://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/the-partisan/

Political Observer: I have no permission from @RutgersIT to reprint this selection from Jordan Rubin’s revelatory biography of William Rehnquist! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 30, 2025 Editor: Reader beware of the caviets, of the publisher, aboutMr. Rubin , lets name them prejudices, … Continue reading

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Western Hysteria about ‘The Other’ (China), in its Bourgeois Press, is epidemic!

Political Observer surveys a small portion, of this iteration, of ‘The China Paranoia’! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 30, 2025 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Political Observer.

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Two invaluable Books: Thomas S. Kuhn’s ‘Structure’ & Steve Fuller’s ‘Kuhn vs. Popper:The Struggle for the Soul of Science’.

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On V.S. Pritchett a writer/critic from another age, reviews ‘The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, 1910-1954’.

Newspaper Reader recalls stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 27, 2025 Private Lives V.S. Pritchett August 12, 1982 issue Newspaper Reader.

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‘In The Tory Weeds’ with Robert Colvile!

Political Observer explores The Current Colvile Methodology! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 26, 2025 It takes a great deal of patience to find the central concern of Robert Colvile latest essay, hidden in the Tory Weeds, his retorical speciality: … On migration and … Continue reading

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@NYT’s David Brooks on the second election of Donald Trump.

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 25, 2025 David Brooks’s political evolution from The Weekly Standard Neo-Con, and author of his ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces’ now avalable at the Washington Examiner site: The political evolution of Brooks as writer of not … Continue reading

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