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When I first read this tweet from The American Conservative,  authored by Bruce Fein, I was startled that anyone would defend Scalia’s conception of ‘Textualism’, no matter the context. ‘As Justice Antonin Scalia endlessly lectured, what matters in constitutional interpretation … Continue reading →

Among the topics raised in his usual political free association, of October 12, 2018 titled The Danger of Trump’s Political Accomplishments , Andy Divine was surprised at what McConnell and Ryan were able to pass in Congress, controlled by Republicans … Continue reading →

Mr. Stephens points at Trump and his obliteration ‘the moral guardrails that keep bigotry down.’ The ‘as if’ here is that his readers will develop ‘political/moral amnesia’ , on Mr, Stephens’ shameless advocacy of the IDF’S mass murder of Palestinians! … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh never ties of speaking in platitudes, under the guise of valuable insight, the paragraph below is a telling example of this unimpressive political strategy. The calls for political civility run up against another limitation. They are essential as … Continue reading →

Guillaume Duval asked the question, in his May 18, 2017 essay, titled Can Macron Move Europe Forward?   https://www.socialeurope.eu/author/guillaume-duval The more than patient reader has her answer in his October 30, 2018 essay titled Trump, Putin, Orbán, Kaczyński, May, Salvini… An … Continue reading →

… Regime change Neoliberal restructuring promised a reversal of the decline in profits. Couched in the language of individual freedom, it would raise profits by undermining the bargaining power of labour, cutting taxes on capital and opening new profit centres … Continue reading →

Recall Andy Divine’s essay of October 12, 2018? Headline: The Danger of Trump’s Political Accomplishments It was the usual political travelogue that is Andy’s  specialty. ‘Kanye and Khashoggi and even Kavanaugh’ … The Kavanaugh-Ford showdown also helped upend the overly simple … Continue reading →

The American polity is crumbling from the inside, led not just by Trump’s cultivated political irrationalism, but the active participation of the New Democrats, in sum, the utterly corrupt Clinton Coterie that has captured the Democratic Party’s political apparatus, and … Continue reading →

The Oxbridgers here at The Economist proclaim not just their support for the Welfare State, as being an integral part of an ‘Enlightened Capital’ ,but their political enthusiasm for it.  Framing their argument by The Beveridge Report from a ‘Liberal … Continue reading →

Such is the desperation of this newspaper, and one of its writers, to find a new augmentative armature on which to hang a ‘new’ description of Trump, has reached the point of the utterly ludicrous! Can the reader imagine any … Continue reading →