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How could I have missed Janan Ganesh’s June 3, 2020 essay? Headline: A divided America cannot compete in a superpower duel with China Sub-headline: If another cold war is afoot, the US goes into it with less of the cohesion … Continue reading →

Perhaps this is one of the reasons that Mr. Ferguson left the august Times ? ‘He is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, a New York-based advisory firm.’ Mr. Ferguson is another peddler, with his vaunted ‘expertise’ like … Continue reading →

Headline: Can this American version of the French Revolution bring change? Where is the Marat, the Robespierre? Your historical inflation looks a bit grand for this   list of  villains: The Boogaloo Bois, ANTIFA, maybe BlackBlock. Should we add to this … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce’s verbose hand-wringing devolves into this Delphic Utterance: ‘Faced with a choice between sabotaging American democracy or a future spent in and out of court rooms, I have no doubt where Mr Trump’s instincts would lie. It would be … Continue reading →

From the very font of Neo-Liberalism, The Financial Times, presents the dutifully alarmist report on the ongoing state of its collapse in New York City, that features a report on the quarrel between de Blasio and the bellicose New Democrat … Continue reading →

While the home of the American Empire is consumed in flames, Mr. Ganesh entertains his readers with ‘God Talk’. In that spirit let me offer these thoughts: Janan Ganesh celebrates Francis Collins by way of Christopher Hitchens ‘the heathen’s heathen’ … Continue reading →

Three paragraphs devoted to Joe Biden’s comments, ‘the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’ subject to his own attempt at self-rehabilitation, about the irredeemable character of the black habitual offender: the Predator of the white nightmare: The Crime Bill, the toxic remains … Continue reading →

Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists

This is about the only paragraph of Mr. Wolf’s essay that is not awash in Late Capitalist Utopianism:  ‘Yet that does not make this desirable. When we look at the awful mistakes of the past, we must be struck by … Continue reading →

Benjamin Disraeli wrote in praise of “Tory men and Whig measures”. Almost a century and a half since he was Britain’s premier, that mix remains the surest way to electoral glory, and not just there. It is, come to think … Continue reading →