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Wolfgang Kowalsky inveighs against the ghosts of ‘French Theory’. A comment by Eugène Drieu La Rochelle

Wolfgang Kowalsky maladroit attempt to lay the blame for the current political unrest and dissatisfaction: Populism of both Left and Right, as the product of the Prophets of French Theory, who were advocates of  a toxic ‘relativism’ expresses political desperation. … Continue reading

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Emmanuel Macron Protectionist? A comment by Political Observer

Are the Jupitarian Politics of President Macron about to hit a shoal of his own making? Protectionism in the name of National Security. The mantra of the EU Cartel has always been ‘Free Trade’ but what to do with those … Continue reading

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Edward Luce on those ‘canny’ French Lawyers and Financiers’, Old Socialist comments

The first part of this paragraph is predicated upon the fiction that the rise of Thatcher/Reagan set two Western Economies on the right track : away from the Post War Welfare State, toward a Utopia predicated upon the the Free … Continue reading

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Emmanuel Macron as “Jupiterian”!Anne-Sylvaine Chassany reports in The Financial Times. A comment by Committed Observer

The reader just has to laugh at the assertions that M. Macron makes in the first paragraph of  Anne-Sylvaine Chassany essay! Emmanuel Macron’s decision to open up Louis XIV’s palace in Versailles for Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the end of … Continue reading

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At the Financial Times: Janan Ganesh on Mrs. May and ‘the two un-thinkables’. American Writer comments

Mr. Ganesh begins his latest essay with the sentence: Emmanuel Macron can now expect control of the French parliament to go with the presidency he clinched last month. Mr. Ganesh is too practiced, too glib an apologist for the benighted … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Gideon Rachman postulates an unmerciful Macron. A comment by Political Observer

The political present and the immediate future look bleak for the Mrs. May, her only allies being those Northern Ireland political romantics, who think they can turn back time, and their belief in the benighted erosions that rule the modern … Continue reading

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@socialeurope: John Palmer opines on ‘The UK Brexit Campaign Is Starting To Fracture’. Left-Wing Social Democrat comments

The mildly curious reader need only read your own description of  Mr. Palmer’s associations to realize exactly who he is in terms of the European Union: About John Palmer John Palmer was the European Editor of The Guardian and then … Continue reading

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@thomaswright08: Fellow Traveler Gideon Rachman ‘reviews’ All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the 21st Century and the Future of American Power. A comment by American Dissident

I’ll begin my comment with this paragraph from Mr. Rachman’s review of Mr. Wright’s book, that demonstrates that Mr. Wright’s book doesn’t labor under a political  misapprehension, but expresses the ideological myopia of a Neo-Conservative public intellectual: Wright’s book is … Continue reading

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@OliverKamm takes a swing at Corbyn: but does a pratfall, a comment by Old Socialist

@OliverKamm Did you think that your history of being an avid supporter, or better yet, call you a close ally of Tony Blair, would remain outside this comments section. You’ve even blocked me from your twitter feed! How prescient of … Continue reading

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At The Economist: Mrs. May vs. Jeremy Corbyn. Almost Marx comments

Now the retooled Soviet Socialist Realist paintings of Lenin preaching to the Proletariat, with Corbyn’s face superimposed into the image, is a propaganda tool now discarded by the wily Oxbridgers of the Economist editorial staff. But the Oakshottian contempt for … Continue reading

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