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Headline: The surprising rebound of Bernie Sanders Sub-headline: The senator could harm Elizabeth Warren’s chances of grabbing the Democratic nomination More of the same horse-race coverage of the debate from Mr. Luce, except for some back handed and maladroitly handled … Continue reading →

Niall Ferguson’s column, of October 13, 2019, offered some rather cynical, not to speak of self-congratulatory speculations on the Warren candidacy, at the good grey Times: Headline: Elizabeth Warren: the worse, the better for Donald Trump’s female foe Sub-headline: The Massachusetts … Continue reading →

Headline: The EU needs to be a power project Sub-headline: The emerging world order will increasingly be The emerging world order will increasingly be shaped by might, rather than law The advocate/apologist for The Post-War Liberal Order, Mr. Rachman, and … Continue reading →

Instead of reading full time political hysteric Andy Divine on the Trump Impeachment, under this headline and sub-headline: The first paragraph defines to political territory of Andy’s comment: Remember that sultry July day during the 2016 campaign when Donald Trump went in … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce repeats ‘The Party Line’ on the Trump impeachment. The ‘as if ‘ that Mr. Luce operates under is that his readers don’t go elsewhere for ‘news’ and information. On the vexing question of the change of the rules … Continue reading →

Mr. Rachman having been born in 1963 has no actual memory of Malcolm X, yet some of his readers do possess that memory. Could the fact that Rachman spent part of his childhood in apartheid South Africa have any bearing … Continue reading →

Some sobering statistics put the Democratic Party  ‘horse race ‘ , as presented by Mr. Luce,  for its presidential nominee into perspective (As of September 27, 2019) : 129 days until the first Democratic Primary 209 days until the Democratic … Continue reading →

Mr. Rachman rightly identifies Life and Fate as a great novel , which he then scavenges , in the most cursory way, as somehow relevant to the present Age of Trump, and various  Populist Bad Actors . Of inestimable value, … Continue reading →

Headline: Democrats in a fever over universal healthcare pledges Sub-headline: ‘Medicare for All’ proposal risks alienating moderates ahead of 2020 election The ramble through the thickets of the political schizophrenia, that describes the New Democrats, on the long overdue Medicare for … Continue reading →

When reliable Inquisitor Andy Divine isn’t making holy war against Middlebury College, he likes to keep busy. See this valuable essay from The National Review by Andrew Stutterford of March 11, 2017, that takes Andy’s New York Magazine essay on … Continue reading →