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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 reader of Christopher Caldwell’s commentaries must experience a kind of mystification, regarding his civic,political, and his once well documented xophobia?

Political Observer asks the question: Is Caldwell the unofficial Intellectual Court Historian of The New York Times? stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 01, 2024 In his latest essay in The New York Times Mr. Caldwell expresses an enthisasm for Wolfgang Streeck: Editor: A … Continue reading

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Recall Gore Vidal’s ‘The Holy Family’ of April 1, 1967?

The New York Times writes its final chapter? stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 30, 2024 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

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The Financial Times offers only ‘The Good News’, on its Front Pages ?

Political Cynic shares that News, in miniature… featuring Gillian Tett as almost a Keynesian? from January 16 2024. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 29, 2024 Not to forget the redoubtable Gillian Tett! Or her January 16, 2024 essay: Globalisation Gillian Tett: Look back … Continue reading

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Is Rinvoq (upadacitinib) a possible answer to Crohn’s disease?

StephenKMackSD. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 28, 2024 In the Octorber/November issue of the AARP Magazine on page 50 is a report on Rinvok a medication for the treatment of Crone’s disease. In the the 1990’s I worked for a a division of … Continue reading

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The Manhattan Institute Imports British Xnophobe Douglas Murray!

Political Observer ponders the propitious moment… stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 26, 2024 Murtaza Hussain has something to say about Mr. Douglas Murray at The Intersept of December 25, 2018 This March, Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán posted a photo of himself to his … Continue reading

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“News Aggregator” Semafor/Principals has replaced that tired old ‘Time Magazine’ and other Brands like @NYT etc?

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 25, 2024 When ever I go to the Library, just a block away, I always see Time magazine on the shelf. I usually find this magazine in almost in pristine condition, as I turn its pages … Continue reading

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John Crace of Sun 28 Jan 2018, on Jordan Peterson’s. ’12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B Peterson – digested read’.

Political Cynic recommends the redoutable and witty Mr. Crace, as he digests those ’12 Rules for Life’. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 24, 2024 The opening paragraph of the Crace essay, in which Crace assumes the role of Peterson: Just a few years … Continue reading

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Rod Liddle: Sunday November 24 2024.

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 24, 2024 Rod Liddle opines…

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Robert Colvile almost comes to terms with his Thatcherism?

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 24, 2024 Headline: When my life was shattered, death benefits helped me cope Sub-headline: Proposals to tax many lump-sum death benefits cannot be right, morally or legally https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/when-my-life-was-shattered-death-benefits-helped-me-cope-6900sjbqp Read the beginning senteses of Mr. Colevile’s … Continue reading

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On the inauspicious return of Jorden Peterson! Is he the Creature of a Bankrupt Neo-Liberalism, post 2006-2008?

Old Socialist asks a New York Times kind of question! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 23, 2024 Jorden Peterson is the almost natural inheritor of the mantle of Allan Bloom! There is present in both thinkers/actors/politicians the scolding/shaming mentality of the Old Testament … Continue reading

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