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Title Mr. Rachman’s latest essay  ‘The Myth of Globalism Under Threat’. When all else fails melodrama! Not forgetting that Rachman’s faith in ‘Globalism’, recalls to me the long forgotten Eric Hoffer, and his book ‘The True Believer’.  ‘Globalization’ is, in … Continue reading →

Headline: The crushing burden on Mnuchin’s shoulders Sub-headline: Treasury secretary enters war against Covid-19 with handicaps, but he’s all America has got First the melodramatic headline and sub-headline, and then this bit of political kitsch: No one has ever thought … Continue reading →

Barry Goldwater, who won his first election contest, in a Mayor’s race, based upon the lie of the infiltration of ‘gangsters’ into civic life! This is the best that Mr. Ganesh can muster? He tries to mask his ignorance of … Continue reading →

Headline: The Political Media’s Blurred Reality Sub-headline:How market pressures and professional hubris have undone campaign journalism Mr. Shapiro manages to make American Politics as practiced in 2020, sing like a Pop Tune, at the bottom of the charts, of another … Continue reading →

Headline: Reality Arrives to the Trump Era Andy Divine reads Camus’ ‘The Plague’: ‘Plagues routinely start with denial. In his great novel, The Plague, Albert Camus describes a scene at the very beginning, after several rats in a town started … Continue reading →

Note the headline and sub-headline of Mr. Shapiro’s essay: The Gauzy Myth of the Sanders Campaign If there were ever hidden armies of Democratic voters yearning for a  visionary presidential nominee, then they remain well camouflaged. Besides the highfalutin headline, … Continue reading →

Headline: Coronavirus and the comeback of the administrative state Sub-headline: Terms of political discourse have moved unmistakably in favour of government over just a few weeks The regular reader of the ideologically inflected political myopia of Mr. Ganesh, just has to … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce’s almost prophetic gifts are demonstrated, in these two paragraphs of his latest essay: … Joe Biden’s victories in at least four of the six states that voted in this “mini-Super Tuesday’ — four of which Mr Sanders had … Continue reading →

In his column of Sunday March 8, 2020, Niall Ferguson: Headline: Sleepy Joe Biden has given Donald Trump a wake-up call Sub-headline: Despite his senior moments, the comeback codger has a real shot I know Joe Biden. Not well, but … Continue reading →

… So on International Women’s Day, who better to ask what is going wrong than Sheryl Sandberg, the guru of female work empowerment, the woman who encouraged millions of us to Lean In, and COO of Facebook, the world’s most powerful company. … Continue reading →