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Always be aware when reading @RColvile that he is a Thatcherite in the 21st Century: think of this as a manifestation of Political Fiction, akin to Science Fiction, or a variation on that once genre of ‘Futurism’? Or have I … Continue reading →

The critical reader of Andy Divine’s latest essay, confronts his title and sub-title: Our Very Catholic President The strange miracle of Joe Biden The first question is how long will Andy be so smitten with Joe Biden? But the second … Continue reading →

What can an ordinary person, of whatever age or other demographic indicators, or even race, think of Bill Gates’ operation to circumcise the whole of African males, as the in order too of AIDS prevention. Along with his allies: https://www.jpost.com/health-and-science/israelis-train-africans-to-circumcise-against-aids … Continue reading →

Headline: What the parable of Obamacare teaches Republicans Sub-headline: The party can win a culture war but not a class war The headline and sub-headline are the utterly preposterous recitations of political catch phrases! The political hypocrisy, that both The … Continue reading →

This has all the appeal of thick slice of Miss Havisham’s wedding cake! Macron did not ‘He proved it by winning the presidency convincingly in 2017.’ This is the Financial Times Party Line, endlessly repeated as ‘political truth’! According to … Continue reading →

How appropriate that my favorite Thatcherite @RColvile, in his latest essay, his reportage awash in self-infatuated political bathos, if that describes his retrograde politics: so fascinating is his self-presentation in its game of reporter/ideologue.  His careful, and to speak hyperbolically, … Continue reading →

Why should it surprise the reader that David Brooks would resort to the economist Mancur Olson, and his ‘ interest groups’ as the bad political/economic actors, holding back innovation and excellence, two concepts that marked the Reagan Era Free Market … Continue reading →

Patrick M. Cronin is a member of The Hudson Inst. : The Hudson Institute is a politically conservative American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1961 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist, military strategist, and systems … Continue reading →

If ‘Social Science’ is ‘sovereign’ then ‘The Bell Curve’ partakes of that sovereignty? When one of its underpinnings is ‘Mankind Quarterly’? The Tainted Sources of ‘The Bell Curve’ … What sort of “stuff” could Murray mean? Surely the most curious … Continue reading →

Reading Mr. Colvile’s most recent essay, on the G7, conjured, in my political imagination, Mr. Puff from the Sheridan play, comic silliness, as cover for a self-serving manipulative cynicism. The reader might wonder at an utterly humorless Thatcherite resorting to … Continue reading →