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Mr. Ganesh is my favorite flâneur! He can write a feuilleton, the rhetoric of the Sunday Supplement’s decorous chatter, like no other writer in America or Britain. His only possible competition is James Wolcott , once of Vanity Fair. As … Continue reading →

Lecturing about ‘Violence’ as’the weapon of the stupid’ is the stance of the respectable bourgeois intellectual, out of touch with the desperation/nihilism of the have not’s!The American Political Class: corrupt Neo-Liberals could not pass a $600 a week lifeline, to … Continue reading →

There is noting quite like the Financial Times’ Editors political/economic romance with Emmanuel Macron! Even in the face of the platitudinous, or is it high drama?, collapse of Neo-Liberalism, precipitated by The Pandemic: the notion that the Keynesian approach, adopted … Continue reading →

Should the reader be at all surprised that Mr. Cass is the executive director of ‘American Compass’ ? It’s another Think Tank. The quotation from Russell Kirk leaves no doubt :  ‘”A sound economy cannot exist without a political state … Continue reading →

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Headline: Shinzo Abe and his struggle with Xi Jinping Sub-headline: The outgoing Japanese prime minister was right to reject appeasement The Party Line on Shinzo Abe has been enunciated by Gideon Rachman, weakly framed in New Cold War melodrama. The political … Continue reading →

Its ‘as if’ Andy thinks that his political past will never catch up with his latest personae:  1994: Headline: Race, Genes and I.Q. — An Apologia Sub-headline: The case for conservative multiculturalism https://newrepublic.com/article/120887/race-genes-and-iq-new-republics-bell-curve-excerpt A telling review of ‘The Bell Curve’ by Charles … Continue reading →

Pankaj Mishra is one of the most trenchant critics of ‘Western Civilization’ and its apologists/explicators/advocates. As the Neo-Liberal Age and Globalism , the ultimate expressions of that ‘Civilization’, continues its confusing, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, collapse.That Mr. Luce and … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce’s political erasure is about the Republican Party of : The post WWII  politics ,  the New Deal as a ‘Generation of Treason’,  McCarthyism in its iterations.   The mass political migration of the Dixiecrats into the Republican Party, post … Continue reading →

Who else but a Practicing Capitalist, in the Age of the Death of The Neo-Liberal  Swindle, to admonish the reader, and other persons and institutional actors, that Government can’t  fix what is not broken, but only in need of a … Continue reading →