Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Political Cynic comments. Headline: There are no good choices for the west on Ukraine Sub-headline: It should strengthen sanctions, though they may ruin Russia’s economy without changing its policy or regime https://www.ft.com/content/6ec8777e-e6b3-4be6-9e64-8cfaf71d1e18 Note that the cartoon, that tops the essay by … Continue reading →

Political Reporter comments. Here is the central conceit of Mr. Ganesh’s essay: its political actor/actors is ‘populism’ , so suggestive, yet so tantalizingly amorphous. Mr. Ganesh’s gift for the telling apercu, is repurposed into this World Historical Fiction: the diagnosis of ‘the liberal center’. … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. I woke up last night, several times, to the sound of thunder overhead and the fact that it was raining in San Diego , after days of near summer temperatures … It is Friday March 4, 2022, … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. The first four paragraphs of Mr. Douthat’s essay of March 2, 2022: Note that Mr. Douthat has ‘graduated’ from being that moralizing Catholic Scold, to being an expert in Foreign Policy, and in this case War. Yet Mr. Douthat … Continue reading →

The Reader of Mr. Ganesh’s impersonations of the world weary flaneur, searching for that something, that will address the void -his one true calling, recording for his readership, his thoughts on the surfaces of the World, not its deeper meanings, but those … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. The Reader of Mr. Rachman latest essay has to marvel at his essay, it should be more rightly named War Propaganda, aimed the ‘home front’, that is, its privileged readership. Mr. Rachman can’t seem to contain his expression of Triumphalism, … Continue reading →

Political Cynic speculates. Has that time spent writing for The New Statesman, as short as his tenure has been, led to Mr. Douthat to reappraise his once obsession with the sexual lives, practices of American Women? That subject will have … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments on her melodrama, as political temperature taking! There is nothing quite like The Financial Times placing an essay about the end of ‘the post-cold-war order’ in the ‘Life And Arts’ section of this newspaper! And that this ‘essay’ began … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Bret Stephens has something in common, with another Oil Man’s brat Wm. F. Buckley Jr. ! Both offered themselves as ‘the answer’ to American Decadence, and a loss of faith in American Exceptionalism’s Mission. Mr. Stephens hasn’t yet written his ‘God and … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. At The Telegraph: Headline: The West has been too slow to confront Russia Sub-headline: At a time when leadership is needed, the UK Government deserves full credit for offering it TELEGRAPH VIEW20 February 2022 • 6:00am These … Continue reading →