Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

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 →

Newspaper Reader can almost embrace his practice? Opinion: Geopolitics Europe’s leaders have woken up to hard power It isn’t clear that their electorates have done the same https://www.ft.com/content/42a4531a-d50a-46f0-9a23-076c03b0da31 Mr. Ganesh as boulevardier loves to tease his readership! The first two … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader & Political Cynic Headline: Ukraine, Gaza and the rise of identity geopolitics Sub-headline: The global conscience moves in mysterious ways https://www.ft.com/content/c9173148-22d9-444b-8a8c-b14585a7db26 Rachman sets the stage: Early in the Gaza conflict, a TikTok video of John Kirby went viral. … Continue reading →

Political Observer. MAR 26, 2024 Well-connected in academia, business and government, John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economic theorists of the twentieth century. It appears that his theories will be just as important for the twenty-first. As … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader Adam RobertsDigital editor Hello from London, What consequences might flow from Friday’s terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow? Even—or especially—for an autocrat who just won a sham election, there is a risk of looking weak or wrong-footed after … Continue reading →