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Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

Mr Zuckerberg demonstrates beyond question that he is a political/intellectual bumpkin! He built his search for dates into a ‘Brand’ that is Facebook. He had help. But to say that the ‘opioid crisis‘ and technology are the causes of America’s … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

https://www.ft.com/content/70aca220-c30a-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656 https://www.ft.com/content/3327c766-c325-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656 https://www.ft.com/content/21db0302-c25c-11e7-a1d2-6786f39ef675 https://www.ft.com/content/e64f21e4-c222-11e7-a1d2-6786f39ef675 https://www.ft.com/content/c6066ce0-c2fd-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656 https://www.ft.com/content/563ea65e-c314-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656 https://markets.ft.com/data/announce/detail?dockey=1330-643383en-4QU46A2VSMU9SD4NVDBT44T2M5 https://www.ft.com/content/4680a384-c2fb-11e7-a1d2-6786f39ef675 What the Paradise Papers Tell Us About Global Business and Political Elites   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/paradise-papers-tell-us-global-business-political-elites.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29 The Panama Papers revelations succeeded by the Paradise Papers: Capitalism lurches  from crisis to crisis, aided by its … Continue reading →

Mr. Sturrock’s ‘The Word from Paris: Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers’  Links to two of Mr. Sturrock’s insightful and challenging review/essays for the London Review of Books : (Behind a pay wall, but completely worthy of the cost, … Continue reading →

Thank you for your comment. ‘How do you know which activities I pursue? I would be really interested.’ At the least, Keynes was a fascinating and complex man, thinker and being! Full of contradictions, but none the less worthy of … Continue reading →

Mr. Sullivan’s penchant for political  moralizing is a never ending phenomenon, some examples of his analysis of the governor’s race in Virginia between Ed Gillespie and Ralph Northam are demonstrative of his rampant self-congratulation, not to speak of  his self-conception … Continue reading →