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Janan Ganesh frames his latest essay via caprice, steadfastness,fickleness, Hegelian rhythm and whimsey. Old Socialist comments

Just a selection from Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay, on American Political life and Foreign Policy and its World-Historical repercussions. In sum a collection catchphrases-sometimes expressed as sentences. In sum, the rhetorical architectonic is based upon fragmentary thought, held together with … Continue reading

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Dr. Janan Ganesh diagnoses ‘Liberal Dread’. Political Observer comments.

There are no ‘Liberals’ only Neo-Liberals! Corporate Media have a political allergy to the term! The Democrats ,capitulated to the New Democrats in 1992, with the election of Clinton and his familiar. In sum Reaganism Lite! Ganesh Cliche Mongering chatter, … Continue reading

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The American Election 2020, as refracted through the Financial Times Editorial Board, Edward Luce & an assist from Niall Ferguson . Political Observer comments

I woke up at 4:30 AM PST, this morning, and checked twitter for the latest Election News, not knowing what to expect, other than bad news. Now at the breakfast table, I’ve read first the Editorial Board of The Financial … Continue reading

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@TheEconomist Joe Biden propaganda, rebutted by @nypost & @ggreenwald. Old Socialist comments

That The Economist has become the house organ for the ‘Joe Biden & Son’ political entrepreneurship should not surprise! Headline: Why it has to be Biden Sub-headline: Donald Trump has desecrated the values that make America a beacon to the … Continue reading

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The ascension of Amy Coney Barrett, in the pages of The Financial Times.

That Richard Posner is presented here, by Michael Rips, as a ‘conservative’ is hyperbole masked as understatement! Look to the ‘Columbia Law Review’ of October 1985, Vol. 85 Num.6 for his  ‘An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law’: … My analysis … Continue reading

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Timothy Garton Ash in a panic about the American Election, in the pages of The Financial Times. Political Observer comments

The American Empire can never seem to falter, that a given of Imperial Power. So it can come as no surprise, that Mr. Garton-Ash’s polemic is suffused with the political panic of a Technocrat-crisis becomes the singular rhetorical note of … Continue reading

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@sullydish puzzling silence on Amy Coney Barrett. Old Socialist comments

I’ve been catching up on reading Andy Divine’s essays, and noticed his total silence on the Amy Coney Barrett Senate Confirmation Hearings. I’ve gone back to October 9, 2020, and not even a mention.Don’t miss his latest production, with the … Continue reading

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Janan Ganesh discovers the virtues of Eisenhower, in the Age of Trump. Political Observer comments

This reader just has to wonder at the ‘why’ of Mr. Ganesh latest essay in celebration of Eisenhower. Perhaps an advanced case of ‘Trump Political Exhaustion’? Its ‘as if’ Reagan, and his tag-line of ‘government is the problem’, had never … Continue reading

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Anne-Marie Slaughter on the promise of Joe Biden. Old Socialist scoffs

What can the regular reader think of the latest, but one of the infrequent essays of Anne-Marie Slaughter, to appear in this newspaper? First, a fragment of the opening sentence uttered at full rhetorical screech: The world is watching the … Continue reading

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Andy Divine on the scourge of ‘Post-Modernism’, episode MDXXXVII.Political Observer comments

I missed Andy Divine’s October 16, 2020 ‘political diagnosis’ about what ails ‘us’: ‘Post-Modernism’ in all its iterations. If only Andy had read Detlev Claussen’s ‘One Last Genius’? Incuriosity is the intellectual armor of the ideologue. Yet the transgenerational political/economic/civic … Continue reading

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