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On The New York Times Public Intellectual: Ross Douthat on Ukraine.

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 →

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@FT Janan Ganesh on ‘The West’s Enemies’

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 →

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Gideon Rachman’s premature Triumphalism , after only four days of ‘combat’ in Ukraine!

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 →

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On the political redemption of Ross Douthat ?

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 →

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Mary Sarotte’s regret on the collapse of ‘the post-cold-war order’, in The Financial Times!

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 →

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Neo-Conservative Bret Stephens on the power of ‘self-belief’!

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 →

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The Telegraph & The Times War Mongering, a selection.

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 →

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My replies to ‘Jorge’ in The Financial Times of January 18, 2022.

Headline: Is liberal Los Angeles ready for a billionaire mayor? Sub-headline: Developer Rick Caruso shakes up race with vow to clean up crime and homelessness https://www.ft.com/content/41ac42d7-c888-48bc-9065-a17520c1df53?commentID=ac062d28-d10d-490c-9a8c-0e5c50676964 I will post only my comments : First comment: Jorge you sound just like … Continue reading →

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At The Financial Times: George F. Kennan revisionism?

Political Observer comments. Mr. Kuper has missed this issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies Volume 15, Issue 4 Fall 2013: https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article/15/4/233/13418/Gaddis-s-Kennan-A-Different-Kennan This issue takes a critical look at the Gaddis biography, as the preferred methodology for assessing the career … Continue reading →

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Edward Luce Or Patrick G. Vaughan? History Made To Measure or History?

Political Reporter asks the question. This historical essay by Patrick G. Vaughn has escaped the attention of Mr. Luce:  VAUGHAN, PATRICK G. “BEYOND BENIGN NEGLECT: ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI AND THE POLISH CRISIS OF 1980.” The Polish Review, vol. 44, no. 1, University … Continue reading →

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