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How can the reader resist Mr. Ganesh’s adoration of the literary capon, and American Dandy, as conceived by Walt Disney, Tom Wolfe? I received a copy of ‘A Man in Full’ from a friend, who missed sending in her reply … Continue reading →

‘Its the Fed stupid’ complete with a ‘Formula’, a la Piketty? Mr. Luce lives in the Financial Times bubble, in which the earthquake and devastation of the Crash of 2008 didn’t even register. His appointed task, being one of the … Continue reading →

Mr. Frum, in this political instance, has discarded, for the moment, his pose as Wise Republican Elder, to embrace the garb of the Conspiracy Theorist, embraced by such luminaries as Hillary Clinton, her New Democratic allies, the Corporate News Media … Continue reading →

A collection of Mr. Rachman’s geo-political speculations are instructive: In different ways China, the US and the EU have all treated Covid-19 as a very public test of their rival approaches to governance — and as part of an international … Continue reading →

A ‘news story’ so damaging to Joe Biden, that Twitter censored the New York Post’s tweets, of their actual news story. Jack Dorsey’s minions vainly tried to ‘kill’ this! Glenn Greenwald offers the sordid details of the censorship, and the … Continue reading →

The opening paragraph of Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay relies on two instances of potted history of 1979, with the appropriate links to a report in the Financial Times on The Hostage Crisis and a 2011 John Dickerson commentary on Carter’s … Continue reading →

  The Financial Times offers its readership an early roasted Christmas goose, in the person of Oren Cass- let me offer a suggestion as to where that Yuletide sprig of holly might be placed! Mr. Cass inauspicious opening paragraphs gives … Continue reading →

I read and commented upon Mr. Garton Ash’s seemingly interminable essay here: It’s hard to be patient with Timothy Garton-Ash. Old Socialist makes his way through his ‘The future of liberalism’ This section of Mr. Wolf’s essay is instructive : … Continue reading →

Edwin Heathcote a new and welcome voice on the civic nature of Architecture- and in The Financial Times! Or, perhaps I’ve not paid attention to his other essays? It  reminds me of Aline Saarinen, on the Today Show, on NBC, in … Continue reading →

Headline: A World Safe for Democracy by G John Ikenberry — free thinking Sub-headline: This thoughtful and profound defence of liberal internationalism looks at the political philosophy as a guide to future actions Is Mr. Rachman’s enthusiasm for one of … Continue reading →