Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Old Socialist comments. I am not a subscriber to ‘Real Clear Politics’ , but somehow I am on their mailing list. Today I explored the web site, and one of the essays caught my interest: ‘Philip Howard Aims To Enhance Freedom by … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Melanie Phillips opens her diatribe with these markers, this hysterical collection of ‘charges’ against a people subject to 75 years of subjugation, oppression, dispossession, incarceration, kidnap, murder. And in the present to Geocide and Famine, charges that Phillips vehemently denies, … Continue reading →

Political Observer wonders at this short lived ‘evolution’! The first paragraphs demonstrate a remarkable ‘evolution’, that reminds this American Reader of Rod McKuen’s ‘Listen to the Warm’ of 1967! He was reported to be Elizbeth Taylor’s favorite Poet! Mr. Colvile poetic reach, not … Continue reading →

Queer Atheist offers a selective commentary. The first paragraphs of the Brooks’ essay don’t quite give the game away : Should this surprise The Reader? Brooks is smitten by evocatively presented ‘Credentials’ ! I’ve placed in bold font the Brooks … Continue reading →

Political Observer offers a ‘selective reading’. The first paragraphs of Mr. Wolf’s essay that presents the players in this Political Melodrama: Iran is guilty of ‘escalation’ and Benjamin Netanyahu is an embattled prime minister, no matter how crudely introduced, the protagonists sets the … Continue reading →

Political Observer edits the chatter! Thomas Friedman offers this: It would be easy to be dazzled by the way Israeli, American and other allied militaries shot down virtually every Iranian drone, cruise missile and ballistic missile launched at Israel on Saturday and … Continue reading →

Political Cynic comments Opinion Populism Headline: The west is suffering from its own success Sub-headline: Smartphone addiction, culture wars and low birth rates are byproducts of wealth https://www.ft.com/content/74918df2-6911-4087-8add-c11df2811129 A sampler of this ‘Mulligan Stew’ that Ganesh prepares for his readers is helpful: … Continue reading →

Political Cynic comments. It’s always a revelation, of a kind, to read Mr. Ganesh History Made to Measure that places the 14 year Tory Rule as preferable, to the New Labour of ‘Corbyn Slayer’, and Labour Friends of Israel apologist Kier Starmer, as somehow … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader engages is some revelatory Political Archelogy. Mr. Sunstein latest political intervention on behalf of another Academic/Technocrat should not surprise. Daniel Kahneman represents the virtue of seeking ‘a consensus’ of a kind, with his critics in an Academic World, consonant with … Continue reading →

Political Cynic on a revelatory portion of Jonathan Guyer’s political encyclical. … In a Box With Biden Unless President Biden is willing to kick down the sides of the box—checking his own assumptions about Israel, facing down the realities of … Continue reading →