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Steph Umbert is a new name in the Neo-Conservative coterie , at least to me, presents his  ‘vision of the future’ garishly decorated, with the most bizarre iteration about the Post-Modern, since the American Intellectual Provincials ,George F. Will and … Continue reading →

Headline: Donald Trump’s little green men Sub-headline: US president wants to ignite a cultural war to save his re-election campaign Here is Mr. Luce’s clumsy attempt to make a usable political amalgam of Putin The Terrible/The New Cold War and Trump. … Continue reading →

You must grant, that Mr. Drost, doesn’t just know what the reactionary coterie’s of political actors, within both the Republican and New Democrat parties, are not thinking, because that endeavor might just trigger an inconvenient moral/ethical impulse, while strategizing for … Continue reading →

The New Cold War held aloft by a 55 page ‘report’ , with very impressive coterie, of the members in good standing, of the British National Security State. Instead of something even resembling ‘evidence’ ! In sum, a ‘Bill Attainder’ … Continue reading →

The latest bizarre twist, in this election year, is that Republican John Kasich will speak at the Democratic Convention. He being part of the ‘Never Trumper’ contingent. This coterie somehow finds Joe Biden, even in his state of advanced cogitative … Continue reading →

Headline:The Tyranny Of Tenderness Sub-headline: A warning from Walker Percy: well-intentioned but ill-considered solutions will do more harm than good. The Bearers of White Privilege confront Black Lives Matter with a version of an ‘Ersatz Sociology’ , via Walker Percy … Continue reading →

Translation of the whole thread, from the beginning: There are some “interesting” things in the RGN of June with a special file on policing. https://gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/crgn/Publications/Revue-de-la-gendarmerie-nationale/Revue-N-267 … Already the general objectives of doc. Globally GM have two problems: the increase of … Continue reading →

The third paragraph of Andy’s farewell letter, after the politic gestures, is an exercise of blame placing, at its most intellectually bloated: ‘A critical mass’!    ‘What has happened, I think, is relatively simple: A critical mass of the staff and … Continue reading →

The reader needn’t go any further into Mr. Barber’s review of Patrice Gueniffey’s book  Napoleon & de Gaulle to realize the political propinquity between author and reviewer: Rather, Gueniffey is lining up with those who fret that history is no … Continue reading →

After Mr. Ganesh’s July 10th’s comic meditation on Alaric the Goth and English ‘chippyness’ , that he posited ‘as potent a source of motivation as exists in life.’ , supplied by Douglas Boin’s book. https://www.ft.com/content/43e1d489-def7-422c-a8fb-00f4d9e11db9 Mr. Ganesh drew certain lessons, … Continue reading →