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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 rehabilitation of Freud never stops!

Former Analysand comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 13, 2024 Laura Hackett asks the wrong question in the Sunday Times: https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/sigmund-freud-mark-solms-interview-psychology-books-xzwzwxksb ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Hear is my comment from June 14, 2024 on ‘The Freudian Question’ : On the ‘Magic of Freud’: in the TLS … Continue reading

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With Apologies to my readership, I’m a week behind!

Old Socialist on Mr. Colvile’s October 6, 2024 essay. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 13, 2024 In last weeks column Mr. Colvile opined as if he were not a Tory: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/out-of-the-ashes-of-defeat-comes-a-new-tory-consensus-rein-in-the-lawyers-spkxb66jw The analysis of Sir Keir Starmer’s election victory by Sir Keir Starmer’s … Continue reading

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Elon Musk in Le Monde: Damien Leloup and Alexandre Piquard present him warts & all!

Political Writer surveys the territory. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 11, 2024 I was wrong about the absence of Elon Musk’s near disappearance from corporate media, his appearance in Le Monde proves that ‘The Billionaire’ is always worthy of investigation. Think of the … Continue reading

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Neo-Con Observer re-posts his commentary on : Bret Stephens political romance with Eric Adams, of July 21, 2021

Neo-Con Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 08, 2024 Excerpts from the Diary of a Neo-Con Observer: Bret Stephens’ political romance with Eric Adams, in The New York Times. Posted on July 21, 2021 Like his enthusiasm for Emmanuel Macron, Mr. Stephens has found a … Continue reading

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With Eric Adams, a City Journal political enthusiasm, now facing serious corruption charges, as his Political Appointees flee…

Political Observer comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 08, 2024 This came in my e mail this morning. Eliana Johnson, Bari Weiss & The Washington Free Beacon, can’t quite provide cover for The City Journal’s utter bad judgement about Eric Adams. Note the … Continue reading

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@tomfriedman, @TheEconomist on ‘Year One of the Gaza Genocide’, & the metastasizing ‘War In The Middle East’

Political Reporter comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 07, 2024 Tom Friedman in The New York Times : a sampler : … We can and should sympathize with Palestinian statelessness and Arabs in the West Bank living under the duress of Israeli settlements and … Continue reading

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In my e mail this morning: Le Monde becomes the Voice of The Zionist Fascist State, and its 75 year’s of Crimes, its Genocide etc. !

Political Observer stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 07, 2024 The West bears the responsibility for the Toxic/Murderous Zionist Faschist State and it’s continuing crimes in ‘Middle -East’. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/visuel/2024/10/07/traveling-israel-s-route-232-a-year-after-hamas-s-massacre-along-it_6728505_4.html Reader, here is Le Monde opining ‘France’s voice has become inaudible in the Middle East’… Political … Continue reading

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Elon Musk’s toxic need to appear on ‘The World Stage’, what ever the context, is an expression of pathos…

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 06, 2024 Reader, see this excerpt, although Freud has passed into utter irrelevance, this might offer some clues to the inner life of Musk, and his unslacable need for the World’s attention and veneration! ‘The Madman … Continue reading

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From my ‘On The Incorruptible Eric Adams? Political Reporter comments’ From Nov 26, 2021.

Political Reporter. Politico Playbook reported Tuesday that when Mayor-elect Eric Adams flew to Puerto Rico for a New York Democratic Party confab this month, he and his longtime partner, Tracey Collins, hitched a ride on the plane of cryptocurrency billionaire Brock Pierce, who has … Continue reading

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The Child of High Privilege, Bret Stephens Deals From The Victimhood Deck: ‘The Year American Jews Woke Up’

Political Observer on Bret Stephens’ diatribe. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 04, 2024 The opening paragraphs of Mr. Stephens diatribe open with ‘American Jews were aware’ that become a momentary leitmotif ‘we were aware’ though that ‘we’ is so rhetorically inflated, as to be applicable to the ‘many’ lost … Continue reading

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