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Political Observer comments. Understanding Russia’s president: Headline: Writers have grappled with Vladimir Putin for two decades Sub-headline: Greyness, greed and grievance have been the dominant themes https://www.economist.com/culture/writers-have-grappled-with-vladimir-putin-for-two-decades/21808311  First considered, under the rubric of ‘Culture’, as the largest frame for this Ant-Putin polemic! … Continue reading →

Political Reporter comments. The Front page of March 20, 2022 proves that @NYT is part of The American National Security Propaganda apparatus. The Barbarism Of Putin’s War on Ukraine, as reported in the New York Times. Here is ‘its’ self-apologetic … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Here is Jonathan Miller, interviewed by Dick Cavett , articulating a moral/political/personal opinion on his ‘Jewishness’, that might just cause The Bespoke Suited Victimologists like @Freedland, @Baddiel, @AnthonyJulius6 to screeching polemics! The Problem is that all of these writers, … Continue reading →

StephenKMackSD 2nd Edition Pierre Bourdieu By Richard Jenkins: ‘The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914’ by J. W. Burrow: StephenKMackSD

Political Dissident comments. Headline: Eric Adams: Filming NYPD at Unsafe Range ‘Won’t Be Tolerated’ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/eric-adams-filming-nypd-at-close-range-wont-be-tolerated.html Eric Adams doesn’t define ‘unsafe range’, because in the police mentality, consonant with authoritarianism, hasn’t quite considered that his pronouncement will determined in a Court of … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. I found this essay on 3 Quarks Daily: ‘Against De-Materialization: Tom Wolfe in the Age of *NFTs’ at Quillette and was scanning it and encountered this brief synopsis of ‘Bonfire’ The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) concentrates on the convergence … Continue reading →

Rootless Cosmopolitan comments. In the March 11, 2022 TLS Stephen Kotkin reviews four books: BREZHNEV The making of a statesmanTranslated by John Heath512pp. I. B. Tauris. £30. Susanne Schattenberg *************************** COLLAPSE The fall of the Soviet Union560pp. Yale University Press. … Continue reading →

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 →