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In his column of Sunday March 8, 2020, Niall Ferguson: Headline: Sleepy Joe Biden has given Donald Trump a wake-up call Sub-headline: Despite his senior moments, the comeback codger has a real shot I know Joe Biden. Not well, but … Continue reading →

… So on International Women’s Day, who better to ask what is going wrong than Sheryl Sandberg, the guru of female work empowerment, the woman who encouraged millions of us to Lean In, and COO of Facebook, the world’s most powerful company. … Continue reading →

In the imagined ‘Centrist World’ Mr. Biden is the latest manufactured Hero. Except that the notion of that ‘Centrism’, under the myopic gaze of an apologist for that mythical political construct, is in fact the tattered remains of a collapsed … Continue reading →

George Soros, one of the most notorious Ukrainian Coup co-conspirators , he sponsored Right Sector & Svoboda, not to speak of the eventual rise of the Azov Battalion, as the Ukrainian National Guard, is morally/politically bankrupt! Soros sponsored notorious Anti-Semites!The … Continue reading →

The cognitive decline of Biden is obvious, As is his horrid record:the Crime Bill among the legal monuments to his respectable bourgeois racism. “decency”. “dignity” and “empathy” are the trinity of virtues that Biden exercises, possesses? The New Democrats, and … Continue reading →

Compare and contrast two Economist essays: Under the rubric: ‘America’s nightmare’ Headline: Bernie Sanders, nominee Sub-headline: The senator from Vermont would present America with a terrible choice ‘Sometimes people wake from a bad dream only to discover that they are … Continue reading →

Mr. Divine leaves aside his usual political hysteria, in favor of an invidious comparison of Sanders with Jeremy Corbyn. Eliding from his narrative that Corbyn lost that election by not supporting Brexit, to engage in reductivism. Such was Corbyn’s political … Continue reading →

What to say about David Brooks’ latest Anti-Sanders political hysterics? Not a surprise coming from a nearly recovering Neo-Con, who has discovered ‘The Second Mountain’ ? The New Democrats, and their current political allies the Neo-Cons, are under threat from … Continue reading →

Who better than Raghuram Rajan, formerly of the  Reserve Bank of India, and The University of Chicago Booth School to ‘review’ Piketty’s latest book.  Rajan a contemporary iteration of a ‘Chicago Boy’? The record of Chicago Boys and Bankers is/are … Continue reading →

Compare Mr. Luce’s ‘political wisdom’, or should it be properly named a collection of reportorial, rhetorical cliches, a product of lazy thinking, that could have been written in haste? to that of Niall Ferguson’s essay of Sunday 23, 2020: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2020-02-23/comment/michael-bloomberg-leads-in-cash-but-trails-in-charisma-hvjd33zxm … Continue reading →