Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Old Socialist ＆ Almost Marx comment. Read first these paragraphs of Ari Shavit essay/book review ＠TLS : these paragraphs, are immediately bathed in hyperbole : Now this singular actor in a Shakespearean tragedy of his own making … This essay/book review is … Continue reading →

Political Cynic contemplates Oxbridger posturing. Note the headline, sub-headline and the first paragraph of this self-congratulatory polemic, masquerading as political commentary, its tone, almost catty！ Headline: The great mystery of American politics Sub-headline: Why is the country divided so evenly? … Continue reading →

Political Observer & Almost Marx This is a Times publication, steeped in a tradition of Anti-Left hysteria, so the notion of a radical programme is unsurprising, given the smears printed in the Times Newspaper, against Jeremy Corbyn, the dependable Times … Continue reading →

Queer Atheist . Headline: Pope Francis forced me out, says Benedict’s papal aide The private secretary of Benedict XVI has revealed that he was in effect sacked as head of the papal household amid tensions between the former pope and … Continue reading →

Political Observer & Almost Marx What might The Reader make of this China ‘essay’? This January 5, 2023 pronouncement seems ominous! Does the headline and the sub-headline give the game away? These paragraphs demonstrate what to The Reader? For the … Continue reading →

While reading the first chapter of Helen Hackett’s book ‘The Elizabethan Mind : Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty’ I was struck by the ideas about the mind , and the part played by Humours and Melancholy in the lives of the Elizabethans. … Continue reading →

Old Socialist confronts a modern day Scrooge! Or is he a Bagehot? Headline: Yes, public sector pay is low — but the blunt truth is they’d be worse off at a private firm https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/yes-public-sector-pay-is-low-but-the-blunt-truth-is-theyd-be-worse-off-at-a-private-firm-tv8tp65wr Inflation surging. Tickets for Abba selling … Continue reading →

Political Observer confronts just a portion of its 4,037 words. Dec 19, 2022 Headline: What in the World Is Happening in Israel? Dec. 15, 2022 The first paragraphs, of this highly garnished, and nearly hand-wringing travelogue, betrays Friedman’s state of … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice ask the question : Wasn’t ‘Theory’ once the province of the Post-Modernists? who were purged for political/argumentative incoherence: Derrida? December 20, 2022 Beware of the Technocrat with a Theory: ‘The Closing of The American Mind’ by Allan Bloom, ‘The Clash of … Continue reading →

December 22, 2022 The Leadership of Churchill during WWII is not anything like the year end chatter of a Neo-Con scribbler. Two books in Churchill offers clues as to who this man was, not as a self serving political prop: … Continue reading →