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In this episode of The American Political Melodrama Robert Kagan continues in his role as Porcine Spartan. He is tumescent over the possibility that Putin interfered with the American election. Based on the ‘evidence’ provided by the utterly lawless National … Continue reading →

Strobe Talbott is one of the very last of the once celebrated WASP Ascendancy: the Bundy Brothers, the Alsop Brothers and even George F. Kennan , chronicled in the gossip masquerading as history of  ‘The Georgetown Set’ by Gregg Herken … Continue reading →

The ‘Speed and Shock’ candidate Fillon demonstrates that the French Political Melodrama, in which Macron is the the putative winner, for now, is at an end? The Marinetti/Thatcherite offers what has proven to be an utter failure just across the … Continue reading →

Mrs. Thatcher used to pass out copies of Hayek’s Road to Serfdom as if she were passing out party favors. Then came the Crash of 2008, and the arrival of the Bail Outs and the appearance of ‘Austerity’, except for … Continue reading →

The unspoken declaration of Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay is: I’ve come to bury Labour/Corbyn not to praise them- I paraphrase. In the project of Neo-Liberal self-rescue, one of the most popular forms that that project takes is of misdirection. So … Continue reading →

Can the reader of his latest essay wonder, has Mr. Luce discovered the 99%? If so, it qualifies as a belated victory for the Scruffy Hippiedom of Occupy Wall Street! So much for my lapse into the hyperbolic. Mr. Luce … Continue reading →

My essay will look at Fillon as one of the main protagonists in this political farce, through the lens of The Financial Times reporters and editors. This French serio-comic melodrama as played out in the pages of this Neo-Liberal newspaper, … Continue reading →

Here is just a portion of what the reader needs to know about Mr. Bremmer. This week, I am in Berlin to join David Lipton, IMF first deputy managing director, and other key stakeholders in a conversation on the shifting … Continue reading →

  One marvels at this excerpt from Mr. Rachman’s latest essay, yet how should the reader interpret Mr. Foa and Mr. Mounk’s statement about the last three decades, in which trust in political institutions has precipitously declined? The thought that … Continue reading →

I will continue my comment on Paul Collier’s TLS Book review. I will quote from his essay and those quotations will be underlined and colored to indicate quotation, and my comments will be in bold italics. I try to address … Continue reading →