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Mr. Rachman’s political desperation is showing to an arresting degree. With his rhetorical frame being  John Maynard Keynes’ open letter to Franklin Roosevelt, after FDR won the 1933 election: “You have made yourself the Trustee for those in every country … Continue reading →

The reader of Mr. Luce’s long essay is first confronted by the Cold War Triumphalism of the fall of the Berlin Wall,  as he and his mates speed toward the Wall in a 18 hour road trip, to be a … Continue reading →

Let Neo-Liberal Lite Golden Boy govern i.e. try to pass ‘reform’! Macron, a man without a Party: Speed & Shock Fillon will say it is a betrayal of his iteration of Thatcherism à la Française, perhaps from a jail cell?  … Continue reading →

May 3,2017 Headline: Le Pen harries Macron in hostile French presidential debate Sub-headline: Centrist favourite keeps cool in the face of bitter onslaught as election run-off looms https://www.ft.com/content/c1875fe6-3052-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a May 4, 2017 Headline: Macron emerges as clear winner of angry French … Continue reading →

I’m currently reading Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence by Francois Duchene. I’ve reached page eighty in which Monnet complains, that in his estimation, his allies in the War effort lack a ‘federalist vision’. The larger vision of a … Continue reading →

The completely disingenuous character of Mr. Bret Stephens comparison of Robby Mook’s imagined assertion that  ‘The data run counter to your anecdotes’ as central to the fact that Mrs. Clinton would win, as a matter of a belief based on … Continue reading →

Has the Daily Beast returned to the once successful formula, once practiced by editor  Tina Brown, of recycled Hollywood gossip? Tales of on-set and off-set melodrama of the long dead ‘Stars’ of another Age? The reader quails at the thought … Continue reading →

Not being a reader of The Wall Street Journal, I wanted to become acquainted with Mr. Stephen’s career in journalism. Mr. Stephens has been hired by the New York Times as its newest columnist, who makes this declaration to his … Continue reading →

“The people are the sea that the revolutionary swims in”: attributed to Mao Zedong. What can this quote have to do with Daniel Davies cynical and self-congratulatory essay, on Obama’s reported speech that cost $400,000.Who is/was worth such a sum, except Bill … Continue reading →

Prof. Tooze engages in an interpolation of the Anderson arguments, so the reader of his ‘review’ of ‘The H Word’ is somehow supposed to accept that the ‘Liberal Order’ is an historical actuality, rather than a usable intellectual construct, in … Continue reading →