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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 →

Political Cynic comments. Some selections from Mr. Brooks long apologetic for the Nazi Front Man Zelensky, in an almost breathless, or better yet a wan pastiche of historical style: The cameras mostly focused on Volodymyr Zelensky during his address to … Continue reading →

Political Cynic wonders… Finance & economics | First-world problems Headline :How the West fell out of love with economic growth Sub-headline : A serious, slow-burning malaise https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/12/11/how-the-west-fell-out-of-love-with-economic-growth This Reader has to wonder, first, at the headline, that reads as if not … Continue reading →

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Political Cynic scoffs! The reader, before she attempts to read Mr. Tooze’s 3,415 word essay, might profit from reading Molly Fischer’s essay at New York Magazine. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adam-tooze-profile.html Ms. Fischer’s essay at 5,224 words wallows in Fan Magazine gush, that informs the … Continue reading →