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I don’t think that anyone can doubt the failure of the whole of America’s Political Class! Trump is just the symptom. Neo-Liberalism’s Social/Political/Economic Engineering destroyed what was left of The New Deal, and in its place Free Market Utopianism gained … Continue reading →

M. 37 % can’t govern his own country, as ‘The Rebellion Against the Elites’ keeps appearing every Saturday, like clockwork. While unreported in this newspaper! Here is Macron as he addresses the burning question facing the ‘West’: “It’s an unprecedented … Continue reading →

Headline: China targets rare earth export curbs to hobble US defence industry Sub-headline: Beijing asks industry executives if proposed restrictions will harm western contractors China is exploring limiting the export of rare earth minerals that are crucial for the manufacture … Continue reading →

The New Cold War is already here! The ‘Enemies’ are Russia, China and Iran, with a minor, but pivotal role, for North Korea. Mr. Ganesh writes ‘as if’ this doesn’t constitute the present political reality. Joe Biden’s choices of Blinken, … Continue reading →

Should the regular reader of this newspaper be surprised at this paragraph in this ‘news story’ about Le Pen? Headline: Marine Le Pen purrs as President Macron’s attack dog scampers round to the right … It is Macron himself who … Continue reading →

This political Melodrama begins with David Brooks in the New York Times of January 28, 2021: Headline: Children Need to Be Back in School Tomorrow Sub-headline: Teacher resistance is a disaster for the most vulnerable. There’s a wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished rereading, the Kant chapter titled ‘Kant’s Critique of Idealism‘,  In  ‘German Idealism:The Struggle against Subjectivism 1781–1801 by Frederick C. Beiser. It took some time, but well worth it.  I’ve started to reread ‘Prolegomena to any further metaphysics … Continue reading →

War-Monger & ‘The Bell Curve’ advocate/apologist Andrew Sullivan attacks The New York Times  & Dan-el Padilla Peralta for attacking the ‘The Classics’! Headline: He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? Sub-headline: Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient … Continue reading →

Title this ‘The Enlightenment of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’ ? Mr. Ganesh doesn’t need to dust off his Madame Arcati shtick, he uses C-Span to demonstrate that Bill Clinton’s utter betrayal of the New Deal Tradition, in America, might … Continue reading →

Here is an excerpt from Mr. Beddiel’s book, as it appears in the TLS: ‘Left outOn the insidious, pervasive, exclusionary nature of ‘progressive’ antisemitism’ Even Anthony Julius, the most trenchant Eliot critic? in his book ‘T. S. Eliot: Anti-semitism and … Continue reading →