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@Pastaneta @Premonition Is there nothing like the perpetual keening of the minions of Capitalist Class? With apologies to Karl Marx! The Bail Out followed by Quantitative Easing isn’t/wasn’t enough? On that question see these two essays that define the term antithetical. … Continue reading →

In his Moscow Diary Mr. Luce produces more New Cold War hysterical propaganda with the aid of his Greek chorus of policy experts: ‘Bob Legvold, the veteran Columbia University Russianist’ who chants about : “a crisis of small thinking” and “global … Continue reading →

In reading Mr. Waldron’s review of two of Mr. Sunstein’s books, in the October 9,2014 edition of The New Your Review of Books: Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism by Cass R. Sunstein Yale University Press, 195 pp., $25.00 … Continue reading →

Mr. Tharoor offers very interesting insights on Fillon, the quotations from his speeches are telling. He is the Marinetti/Thatcherite candidate that has become the favorite of the ultra-respectable Financial Times. I put  Marinetti first , the Futurist/Fascist artist and intellectual, … Continue reading →

The failure of The Financial Times and its writers/editorialists is that of simple honesty. Globalisation is not the problem, the problem can be defined as the Failure of the Neo-Liberalism, given political legitimacy by the rise of Thatcher and Reagan, … Continue reading →

Just finished Chapter 4, titled ‘Splitting the Difference: Habermas’s Critique of Derrida’ by David Couzens Hoy, in this collection of essays. Clarity, insights and beautifully written. I’ve read his The Time of Our Lives : A Critical History of Temporality … Continue reading →

To call Obama a ‘liberal technocrat’ when he is most assuredly an unimaginative Neo-Liberal, and to utter this maladroit sentence: ‘When Vladimir Putin’s Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, John Kerry, the outgoing secretary of state, said: “You just don’t in … Continue reading →

I missed my favorite Neo-Con/New Cold Warrior Anne Applebaum’s November 9,2016 Washington Post commentary on the Trump election. She blocked me from following her twitter account, but her columns are fair game. Here is a telling excerpt from that essay, … Continue reading →

That ‘Free Market Revolutionary’ Mr. Fillon is giving the editors at The Financial Times the jitters, not because he favors ‘shock’ and ‘speed’, not just an echo of Marinetti but a quotation from that notorious  Futurist/Fascist.That rarest of political creatures … Continue reading →

Mr Fillon as Thatcherite, apres la lettre, and Catholic homophobe. The reader hasn’t come across such an improbable hybrid, that almost deforms the idea/practice of the dialectic,  since the publication of ‘French Philosophy of the Sixties, An Essay on Antihumanism’ … Continue reading →