Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Old Socialist comments. Mr. Stephens first paragraph is instructive as to his self-serving ‘analysis’ of a snapshot of the bad actors in his melodrama. I will highlight these in bold font. When historians look back on the early days of 2024, they … Continue reading →

Old Leftist comments. Mr. Lloyd proves that he riffs on certain themes of both Tories, and the Blairite political infatuation, with Mrs. Thatcher’s Hayekian toxic political/economic kitsch. On Sidney and Beatrice Webb: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sidney-and-Beatrice-Webb The Webb’s would, in fact find, this … Continue reading →

Political Cynic comments upon ‘The Sky Is Falling Political Melodrama’ . Carol Tavris reviews two books for The Times Literary Supplement of February 9, 2024. I’ll focus on one of her enthusiasm: ‘The Canceling of The American Mind: How cancel culture undermines … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. Mr. Stephens in his latest contribution to @NYT . Under the pretentious rubric: Mr. Stephens is a bellicose Neo-Con, without any kind of military experience. Yet he places his faith, based upon a complete ignorance of what war might … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader advises caution! Headline: Germany’s moderate middle is back in a volatile political age Sub-headline: While ordinary citizens march against the far right, Sahra Wagenknecht promises realignment on the left https://www.ft.com/content/a45e4a8d-9d0c-4cd0-958a-f844d87961b1 Constanze Stelzenmüller writes with the authority of a … Continue reading →

Political Cynic scoffs! Is it predictable that three New York Times Public Intellectual’s Friedman/Brooks/Stephens should all be parties to the Gaza Genocide, and the Famine that is unfolding now? The first paragraphs of Stephens’ would be ‘bill of attainder’. United Nations … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… A selection from Brooks’ latest Public Moralizing. Yet not a word about the Gaza Genocide! Brooks does offers an extended diagnosis of what ails us… Many professors seem to have lost faith too. They’ve become race, … Continue reading →

A Newspaper Reader focuses on one of the many political actors, in this Friedman Political Melodrama! ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. My brief collection of evocative fragments from this ‘essay’: There are many ways to explain the two biggest conflicts in the world today–while … Continue reading →

Political Observer on the Propaganda Imperatives of @NYT Bret Stephens & David Brooks. Like his Fellow Traveler David Brooks , Bret Stephens attempts to change the subject from the 24,100 dead in Gaza, by means of his latest essay: The Meaning of Gaza’s … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. J.G.A. Pocock in the London Review of Books offers this frontal attack on The Paradise Lost of Brexit: J.G.A. Pocock offers this on Brexit: Vol. 38 No. 14 · 14 July 2016 Profoundly anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, the EU obliges you … Continue reading →