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About stephenkmacksd

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

Zionist vs. Zionist :Bret Stephen & Jake Wallis Simons!

Political Observer reports! The Reader has to give credit to Zionist Shill Bret Stephen, for his August 13, 2024 essay in in which he devotes his commentary to Naftali Bennett: Editor: Mr. Stephens has given up on Netanyahu, and as … Continue reading

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Political Observer can’t resist Janan Ganesh political embroidery, or all that Royal Icing on Miss Haversham’s wedding cake ?

Political Observer shares his thoughts! What does Miss Haversham’s wedding cake have to do with Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay? Telling question? Miss Haversham was left at the alter, and her life ended is a moment of betrayal, that metastasized into … Continue reading

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Mujtaba Rahman, Eurasia Group hireling, carefully chides The European Commission …

Political Observer(AKA StephenKMackSD) Mujtaba Rahman, Eurasia Group hireling, carefully chides The European Commission in the forth paragraph of his essay, as if ? The European Commission’s “list of demands” that Sir Keir Starmer must address to improve the UK-EU bilateral relationship shows … Continue reading

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@Telegraph exalts in a defeat for Putin, in two iterations!

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Michel Hazanavicius manages to bore his readership @LeMonde_EN!

American Provincial quotes just enough of Michel Hazanavicius ennui inducing essay… Why do so many young, pink-assed, Nike-wearing French people want to be revolutionaries and fierce defenders of the weakest with a one-dimensional reading of the issue? And why do … Continue reading

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Reader do recall Gillian Tett’s ‘A debt to history? in @FT of January 16, 2015? Gillian Tett of 2024, still proves herself to be a very valuable Economic/Thinker/Writer !

Political Observer comments from 2015 & 2024. Here is a portion of Tett’s essay from January 16, 2015, the whole essay is more than worthy of your attention! Headline: A debt to history? Sub-headline: To some, Germany faces a moral … Continue reading

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Political Observer confesses: I can’t resist Janan Ganesh chatter, @FT !

Just look at the political actors, players, walk-ons in Ganesh’ s latest Historical Re -Write its like crewel embroidery aided by gusts of Hot Air . Editor: Paragraph 1: …the American left…, …Defund the Police…,…White Fragility…, Politics being downstream of culture,…, Dave … Continue reading

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There is nothing more toxic than American’s addiction to ‘The Hollywood Star’ ?

Myra Breckenridge comments upon ‘“Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes”’ by Alissa Wilkinson, in The New York Times. As the creature of Gore Vidal’s vivid, and at times perverse sexual imagination, I’m probably not the right semi-plagiarist, and pretender, to rifle … Continue reading

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@Peter_Conradi feature story on Holly-Rose Clegg acting career in Paris, lapses into a stern lecture to The French!

Political Observer comments & supplies ‘a selective reading’ of Conradi’s polemic! Mr. Conradi’s feature story begin as just that: When Holly-Rose Clegg was beginning her acting career in Paris, a job at Starbucks helped pay her bills. Almost a decade … Continue reading

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@tomfriedman’s self-congratulation @NYT never surprises!

Political Observer comments. The first three paragraphs of this essay wallows in a retelling of a History, that is still unfolding. But the very canny Mr. Friedman lets his ‘reader’ know that he is aware of the various political actors in this … Continue reading

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