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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

Francis Fukuyama counsils Elon Musk,in the pages of ‘Persuasion’ .

Political Observer comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 12, 2024 Editor : The Reader must recall the auspicios debut of Francis Fukuyama? What Is Fukuyama Saying? And to Whom Is He Saying It? By James Atlas Oct. 22, 1989 … In Fukuyama’s interpretation, … Continue reading

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Reading Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s ‘Objectivity’was both revelatory & enlightening: it’s about the evolution of a practice over time! This, probably too simplistic!

StephenKMackSD stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 11, 2024 Here are Alex Pleshkov and Jan Surma interviewing Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison on ‘Objectivety’ : Objectivity https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781890951795/objectivity?srsltid=AfmBOopZZd8highLnjuQiW_nbaUCDTFqe5CPz9e-KFAiZA-poYDtJXZU StephenKMackSD

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Michael Shellenberger: The Neo-Conservative Obsession with Crime!

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 11, 2024 Headline: Michael Shellenberger: Californians Finally Get Serious on Crime Sub-headline: On Tuesday, voters decided to trust their own eyes. What took so long? By Michael Shellenberger November 8, 2024 Mr. Shellenberger rabble rousing attack on ‘progressives’ is … Continue reading

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Adam Roberts ‘Digital Editor’ of The Economist today.

In my email this morning, November 10, 2024: Newspaper Reader stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 10, 2024 The Economist today A Sunday edition of our daily newsletter ( November 10, 2024) Adam RobertsDigital editor Hello from London, I’ve just returned from watching a momentous … Continue reading

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Le Monde’s ‘Political Centrism’ makes war on the ‘French Radical Left’, via New Democrat Kamala Harris.

Newspaper Reader: French Political Centrism meets a collapsed American Neo-Liberalism? stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 10, 2024 Headline: In Harris’s defeat, French radical left sees proof supporting its strategy Sub-headline: Members of France’s radical left see Donald Trump’s victory as a failure due … Continue reading

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Rafael A. Mangual of The City Journal and ‘The Nick Ohnell Fellow’ at the Manhattan Institute opines on Public Safety!

Political Observer received an email from ‘MI Weekly’. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 10, 2024 It takes some brass for Rafael A. Mangual to opine about ‘The decaying state of public safety’ here is its final paragraphs: … The decaying state of public safety didn’t … Continue reading

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My comment on Peggy Noonan from July 27, 2019.

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 09, 2024 Peggy Noonan’s war against ‘American Jacobins’! Political Observer comments Posted on July 27, 2019 by stephenkmacksd Ms. Noonan begins her essay by describing the French Revolution, based not in history, political history or its various expressions, but as … Continue reading

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Peggy Noonan and ‘The Free Press’, or Patriotism is not the last refuge of the scoundrel?

Newspaper Reader wades through the Neo-Conservative muck! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 09, 2024 Headline: Peggy Noonan: On Loving America Sun-headline: ‘We are a people that has experienced something epic together. We were given this brilliant, beautiful thing, this new arrangement,’ says the … Continue reading

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Bret Stephens can’t face the reality of The Gaza Genocide, and its toxic reverberations: across time, space, & wedded to the hatred of ‘the other’!

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 08, 2024 Even the most the most incurious reader might wonder at the unintended consequences of the Zionist Porgram, against the Palestinians, that has metastasized into Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen? Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist The Age … Continue reading

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A Financial Times Opinion Smorgasbord’, of November 7, 2024

Political Cynic offers a mere montage! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 07, 2024 Financial Times of November 7, 2024 Political Cynic

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