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Who can recall this ‘American Type’, once lost in the fog of a yester-year, reivegortated in The Age Of Trump, asks Political Observer? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 03, 2025 A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of … Continue reading →

Political Observer on the value and necessity of actual History! stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 02, 2025 19 March 1999 The New Statesman Profile – Perry Anderson He is one of Britain’s great Marxist intellectuals, yet now he seems a strangely conservative figure … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice offers a brief, but telling sample of John Holbo’s revelatory essay ! stephenkmacksd.com/ The Literary Wittgenstein John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer (eds.), The Literary Wittgenstein, Routledge, 2004, 368pp, $33.95 (pbk), ISBN 0415289734. Reviewed by John Holbo, National University of … Continue reading →

American Reader comments on Le Monde’s ‘Political Centrism’ as ‘Neo-Liberal Apologetics’ ! Editor: A brief preamble: The Reader needs to approach with caution Nathalie Segaunes essay! With the Trump/Vance meeting with Zelensky, that signaled the not quite end of American … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader is un-surprised. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 27, 2025 Headline: Keir Starmer finally has a vision for Britain Sub-headline: Energised by international events, the Prime Minister has defined his ideas for the state. Editor: The Reader can’t be surprised by this … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 26, 2025 Pensioners without heat are not the only problem that Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves face, besides that utterky anemic 1% growth rate! And the argued 22 billion over-spend that is left beind, and … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader chatters while ‘The West’ … stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 25, 2025 Headline: Michael Lind: Trump represents a nationalist tradition that goes back to Nixon’ Sub-headline: Despite his inconsistencies, the American president has always criticized free trade and the American military … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 23, 2025 Headline: Abundance is the new buzzword on the US left. Now it’s coming here Sub-headline : The US left’s focus on redistribution is failing. A new approach, emphasising economic growth, is gaining traction … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 19, 2025 Headline: ‘Europeans are going to have to relearn to be angry’ Sub-headline: In an interview with ‘Le Monde,’ Pierre Wunsch, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, believes that Europe, built on the … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 18, 2025 Reader consider that Ezra Kline writes for The New York Times, whose support for Netnayahu’s Gaza Genocide and Zelensky’s Ukraine War is reaching its many murderious denouments. Or that Thomas Friedman, David Brooks & … Continue reading →