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New Democrat James Carville on the mortal danger of Bernie Sanders. Political Observer comments
It’s not just New Democrat James Carville, political expert and fixer who helped Bill Clinton to win in 1992: forget Bush looking at his watch, during the debates, and the prescient Ross Perot’s interjection into the campaign, that fated Clinton’s … Continue reading
janan.ganesh@ft.com on ‘Conspiracist fans of Mr Sanders’ and other pressing political questions. Political Observer comments
Mr. Ganesh gives the game away with his first sentence: ‘Excuse the postmodernism here but the Iowa caucuses did not happen.’ What Mr. Ganesh ‘knows’ about Post-Modernism is a matter of conjecture, but does provide an au courant opening for … Continue reading
The Argentine/IMF Economic Melodrama never ends in the pages of The Financial Times. Political Observer comments ?
Can there be any doubt that Macri’s ‘Neo-Liberalism Lite’ has been an utter failure! Was the peso in near free fall the first indicator, that de Kirchner would be returning to office, in her very adroit political trompe l’oeil as … Continue reading
Andy Divine prays for a Miracle. Political Observer comments
Headline:America Needs a Miracle Andy Divine long ago lost the privilege of commenting on ‘race’ with his publication of this essay adapted from ‘The Bell Curve’ : https://newrepublic.com/article/120887/race-genes-and-iq-new-republics-bell-curve-excerpt Andy’s surmise is that his contemporary readers , in the provincial world … Continue reading
Edward Luce & Rana Foroohar in ‘The Swamp’. Political Observer comments
There is no more appropriate place for Edward Luce than ‘The Swamp’ ! He supplies the usual ‘horse race’ handicapping of the approaching Iowa Primary as if by wrote, its a well traveled rhetorical path for Corporate Media ‘reporters’ . … Continue reading
Janan Ganesh on Christian Bale, Dick Cheney, Small Government Republicans, the Unitary Executive, the Trump Impeachment and other pressing questions of the dismal political present. American Writer can’t get past paragraphs one and three!
As as an accomplished, indeed a querulous practitioner of the feuilleton, for the uninitiated a definition : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuilleton. Mr Ganesh’s penchant for Pop Culture references is matter of his immersion in the vicissitudes of that cultural/political product: Christian Bale’s performance … Continue reading
American Writer: diary entry January 25, 2020.
After finishing Domenico Losudro’s Liberalism : A Counter-History , which is a history and polemic against a nihilistic political/civic mythology: and its perpetrators of colonialism, slavery,the indentured servitude of the ‘lower orders’, not to speak of the genocide against native … Continue reading
