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More of the same: The New Austerity and the end of gradualism of Mauricio Macri. A comment by Old Socialist

Here is the ’emerging Party Line’ on the ‘Argentine Crisis’ from the Neo-Liberals, as reported in The Financial Times : Investors have been looking for the government to ditch its policy of “gradualism” in reducing its spending, and many analysts … Continue reading

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Thomas Chatterton Williams reviews two Anti-Student polemics at the New York Times. Old Socialist comments

As moving and enlightening as I found Thomas Chatterton Williams’ interview here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/245784/thomas-chatterton-williams He is an outsider by choice, and more importantly by experience, his role model being his father aided by his own temperament. Mr. Williams remains well within … Continue reading

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Nicholas Xenos describes the Straussian Method, and I provide some examples of it’s application

Originally posted on StephenKMackSD's Blog:
Here is a copy of page 100 and 101 of Cloaked in Virtue. I have provided a link to a copy that can be enlarged for easier reading : https://goo.gl/WzYPNu In this page and…

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Mr. Fukuyama on the plight of the poor, a comment by Political Skeptic

Originally posted on StephenKMackSD's Blog:
America’s favorite Straussian, Mr. Fukuyama, can be depended upon to hit the high spots of the perennial Political Moralizing that infects the hectoring rhetoric of the Right. His concern for the ‘poor’ the ‘underclass’…

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Francis Fukuyama: a Straussian on the Trump victory, Almost Marx comments

Originally posted on StephenKMackSD's Blog:
Beware the Straussians! Intellectual bloat, windy and self-serving re-descriptions of the past, the political  present and predictions on our collective, benighted future, by the stern guiding hand of the self-appointed Philosopher King! One need…

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My current Project: Excerpt from a reply to Francis Fukuyama’s essay ‘The Decay of American Political Institutions’ by Political Observer

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‘One of the great turning points in 20th-century American history was the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which overturned on constitutional grounds the 19th-century Plessy v. Ferguson case that had…

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Mickalene Thomas challenges Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” !

“History removed them from the conversation,” she says. Thomas decided to restart that conversation, placing black women in the same poses as some of western art’s most famous works. In 2010, for instance, she took on Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur … Continue reading

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Headline: The Political Melodrama of M. 37%, episode CCCLIII, titled Woe is He! by Committed Observer

M. 37% is an authoritarian, in the highfalutin guise of  his Jupertarian Politics! That’s the ‘why’ of Mr Benalla unsurprising attack, under the cover of a false authority, on a demonstrator. Not under discussion is the inconvenient  fact that 36.5% of … Continue reading

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My reply to @behcettin

@behcettin @StephenKMackSD Thank you for your comments. Are Bankers held in high regard in any political quarter, even here, at one of the major advocates for the Free Market Doctrine? The decline of the ‘Banker’ is an idea that seems to … Continue reading

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janan.ganesh@ft.com confects a History made to measure of American Populism, in an astounding 841 words. Political Cynic takes the measure of his intervention.

Mr. Ganesh provides a very particular history made to measure of the rise of American Populism.  And in just 841 words! Here are two paragraphs of the most suggestive parts of his narrative, his political panorama is almost rendered in … Continue reading

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