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I recently subscribed to Graydon Carter’s new publication ‘Air Mail‘. I have to admit, I only became aware of its existence by accident. Just looking through the past issues I found Ash Carter’s revelatory essay/ interview with Wieseltier and its … Continue reading →

Ross Douthat presents Trump as resembling ‘the flawed, arrogant, appetitive figures from the Hebrew Bible‘ I have taken the liberty of posting only this part of Douthat’s political apologetic. Note that Trump, through his nomination of  Amy Coney Barrett to … Continue reading →

R2P Zealot, Michael Ignatieff, in sum a Neo-Con in ‘Liberal Drag‘, in his defense of what should have been, at the least, Academic Freedom, but he resorts to utterly bankrupt institutions: Europe’s highest court and World Trade Organization World Trade … Continue reading →

As much as I used to value the commentaries of Andrew Bacevich, who now runs his own ‘Think Tank’. Anyone who subscribes to the opinions of Mr. Caldwell , especially the notion that the 60’s of ‘sex, drugs, rock and … Continue reading →

Alice Fishburn on Curtis Sittenfield’s new short story collection. American Writer comments & more!     Alice Fishburn begins her essay with a stern warning:  Curtis Sittenfeld’s short stories should come with a warning: prepare to be skewered, all you … Continue reading →

Headline: Meet the Proud Boys — Trump’s unofficial militia spoiling for a fight Sub-headline: Sporting Fred Perry shirts and heavily armed, the American far-right group the president refused to condemn is on patrol at his rallies … ‘ I initially … Continue reading →

Could this excerpt from Mr. Lessinoff’s essay, published in 1980, considering the political philosophy of Popper, offer the possibility of a telling critique of Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’? … He does not, of course, deny that some generalizations hold only … Continue reading →

As a regular reader of Mr. Luce,  I’ll just focus on one telling paragraph, in his essay suffused with doom and gloom, about the erosion of both the soft and hard power of the American Hegemon: all neatly wrapped in … Continue reading →

Robert Shrimsley gives the game away in the first three paragraphs of his essay of September 29, 202o.   Headline: This Land by Owen Jones — Corbynism beyond Corbyn Sub-headline: A critique of Labour’s election defeat seeks to give life to … Continue reading →

To read the rhetorical evolution of Andy Divine’s latest essay, is to witness the flowering of his particular variety of political hysteria. It begins with Shakespeare’s Richard III via Stephen Greenblatt’s ‘Tyrant’, and ‘a performance by Antony Sher of Richard … Continue reading →