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Headline: Argentina is in default, says Standard & Poor’s Sub-headline: Restructuring plan amounts to the ninth time that the country has reneged on its debt Argentina has defaulted on its debt, according to Standard & Poor’s, the rating agency, after … Continue reading →

Instead of announcing your ignorance about Cosmopolitanism, and your use of it as a political straw-man of your fictional New Republicanism, that looks like the same bourgeois respectable Racism of Reagan ( ’76’Welfare Queens Driving Cadillacs’,’80 ‘I believe in States … Continue reading →

Headline:Seven days in August tell us ‘We’re not Rome’ Sub-headline: The US president is no Caesar, and the imperial moment lies in the past Recall that Mr Ferguson opened his August 11, 2019 column with this, framed in the above … Continue reading →

Headline: The global gag on free speech is tightening Sub-headline: In both democracies and dictatorships, it is getting harder to speak up After a roll call of political bad actors, in nation  state contexts, on the vexing question of ‘Free … Continue reading →

I’ve read both Mr. Galbraith’s and Mr. Caryl’s reviews of ‘Russia Hand’ and tweeted these two comments to Mr Talbott: Tweet number 1 @strobetalbott James K. Galbraith reviews your book ‘The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy’. Although you … Continue reading →

Who can forget this moment in the life of this notorious Oligarch/Hyper-Reactionary? As reported by John Gapper @FT, Gapper’s report in a bold font, and note his use of utterly dismissive characterizations of the audience : “harried Brooklyn moms and … Continue reading →

The cast of characters of Mr. Ganesh’s latest political melodrama is a crowded field! First to appear in the headline of this Capitalist Apologetic newspaper is ‘The Populist Left’ ,hardly a surprise: the specter of Marx in his various political/economic … Continue reading →

Headline: Markets are braced for a global downturn Sub-headline: The signals from bonds, currencies and commodities are increasingly alarming  Its almost as if American Television’s dreck merchant Aaron Spelling had reincarnated as a writer or writers for the Economist. The … Continue reading →

Andy opens his essay of August 16, 2019, with praise for Straussian Michael Anton as ‘brilliant, bespoke’ it might be a faux pas to call a man ‘chic’?  Mr. Anton began his career, at least to my knowledge, with his … Continue reading →