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Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 28, 2026 Editor: I will focus my attentions on the final paragraphs of Stephens diatribe! … Iran’s traumatized protesters might have been energized by a U.S. attack when they were still in the street; they … Continue reading →

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/abolish-ice-reading-list?utm_source=klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=abolish_ice&_kx=B0r_2u1tAQYvQGEhqe9JK1cxX8zqaZgfLm7MpsT5Suc.SNgHad stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 27, 2026 We’re offering Stephen Graham’s powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life, Cities Under Siege, as a free download. Discount applies in-cart. Cities Under Siege by Stephen Graham Cities are the new battleground … Continue reading →

Thank you Stephen Howard and Cambridge Elements! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 25, 2026 Editor: Reading, or in reality reciting to myself ‘Kants Late Philosophy of Nature’ in the Cambridge Elements series. Kant’s final drafts, known as his Opus postumum, attempt to make what he … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 23, 2026 Headline: An era of distrust emerges between the US and its Western allies Sub-headline: Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US could seize Greenland by force has exposed the strategic isolation his administration has … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 22, 2026 Editor: Here are the opening paragraphs of the perpetual, self congratulatory chatter of Bret Stephens, garnished via Thomas Mann. But carefully elided from the vision, the amerness of NYT reader, Mann’s sexual longing for … Continue reading →

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Newspaper Reader offers: stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 20, 2026 Editor: The the whole of Europe fears ‘The Trump Monster’! But Eaton spies ‘opportinity’ for Tony Blaire’s feckless political catmite Starmer? Morning Call: The Greenland crisis is an opportunity for Starmer Donald Trump’s threats have given … Continue reading →

Editor: Reader recall that the Zionist Cadre of the Ellisons, Bari Weiss, Safra Catz, Bill Ackman, Jan Koum and Shari Redstone ? Musk is just another aspirant i.e. ‘Member of this Toxic Cadre’? stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 20, 2026 Headline: Musk, With … Continue reading →

stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 18, 2026 ( Re-Posted from July 31, 2021 by stephenkmacksd) Colin Burrow’s essay on Empson’s ‘Some Versions of the Pastoral’ and ‘The Structures of Complex Words’ was unexpected in its lack of reverence for Empson. Having read Michael Wood’s ‘On Empson’ as my introduction to this writer: … Continue reading →

Queer Atheist offers Karl Barth and Hans Kung to the reader as revelatory of what possbility might be? stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 18, 2026 Opinion The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion By Ross Douthat Feb. 18, 2012 And both Democrats and Republicans generally agree … Continue reading →