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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 Times reports on the Trump victory! Daniel Finkelstein is unaware of White’s re-write of the 1972 ‘The Making of the President’ series?

Newspaper Reader: I voted in the 1972 American Presidential election! stephenkmacksd.com/ The Times & The Sunday Times: breaking news & today’s latest headlines https://www.thetimes.com/?msockid=1151b375e6d66c013682a65ee7a26d62 Wednesday November 6, 2024 Tuesday November 05 2024, 5.10pm GMT, The Times Mr. Finkelstein fails to … Continue reading

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@NYT: Stunning Return to Power After Dark and Defiant Campaign.

https://www.nytimes.com/ stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 06, 2024

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Kamala Harris refracted through The New Republic political myopia.

Newspaper Reader on Election Day desperation! stephenkmacksd.com/ Title this: Kamala Harris striding toward The Future? Even Alex Shepard can’t quite buy his own political chatter! … Harris is not a generational politician. As I have written, she is not even a … Continue reading

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The Times Hysteria Mongering, only available as a video!

Political Observer: framed as ‘The New Axis Powers’ stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 04, 2024

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Rachiel Reeves Budget sends Robert Colvile, via Boris Johnson, into a panic about ‘the big state, the super-state, the mega-state.

Political Observer offers a brief evaluation of portions of his political intervention. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 03, 2024 Headline: Our £1.5 trillion state will mean nothing without innovation Sub-headline: Kemi Badenoch beware, there is no guarantee that voters will return to the … Continue reading

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@NYT covers ‘The Big Stories’ on November 3, 2024!

Myra Breckenridge Reports! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 03, 2024 Can Joanna Coles and Ben Sherwood revive the once-buzzy news site and reclaim their perches atop the New York media world? Their own staff isn’t sure. Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles took over … Continue reading

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Janan Ganesh in the Life and Arts section of The Financial Times, where he belongs!

Ganesh proclaims: ‘We will be living in Trumpland for decades’ stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 03, 2024 Editor: Mr. Ganesh begins his essay with this ‘The paragraph that follows is the most reluctantly written of my career.’: what might The Reader make of … Continue reading

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@georgeeaton on the New Labour/Rachel Reeves Budget of Octorber 30 & 31.

Newspaper Reader: + Jonathan Rutherford’s book review of ‘The Five Rebels’! & Kate Andrews of The Spectator. (Be patient with me Reader) stephenkmacksd.com/ Editor: Reader recall Mr. Eaton’s essay from October 30, 2024: Headline: Morning Call: The Macbeth Budget Sub-headline :Why … Continue reading

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@MarkUrban01 is a Zionist Apologist @thetimes of Saturday October 26, 2024!

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 27, 2024 Mr. Urbans essay begins here, as if it were an actual ‘news story’ rather than just propaganda! Editor: Mr. Urban ads a new descriptor to the vocabulary of reporters : securocrats. It will … Continue reading

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The Lamentations of David Brooks of October 24, 2024.

Newspaper Reader follows the Brooks’ Historical pastiche! stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 26, 2024 Editor: The first paragraphs of David Brooks’ lamentations about the approaching America Elections: I had hoped this election would be a moment of national renewal. I had hoped that … Continue reading

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