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Beware the Straussians! Intellectual bloat, windy and self-serving re-descriptions of the past, the political  present and predictions on our collective, benighted future, by the stern guiding hand of the self-appointed Philosopher King! One need only read Mr. Fukuyama’s ‘The Decay … Continue reading →

Our Man From A.E.I., Mr. James Pethokoukis, shouldn’t throw stones! Any self-apologetic cliche not written here is just an oversight: big government, crony capitalism, competition, creative destruction, registers with the reader his seriousness. The ignominious failure of a codified Neo-Liberal Utopianism … Continue reading →

Tanenhaus’ flair for Political Melodrama almost rivals that of Cukor’s  1943 MGM potboiler ‘The Keeper of the Flame’. Starring the celebrated Tracy and Hepburn, playing their respective roles, as brave inquiring reporter, and the anguished wife of a politician secretly … Continue reading →

‘Mrs Clinton misunderstood the electorate.’ Given the fact that Mrs.Clinton won the popular vote, but lost in the Electoral College, Mr. Caldwell’s contempt for the arrogance of Clinton Campaign and one of its apologists at The Daily Beast,Mr. Tomasky if … Continue reading →

  Ms. Steinem leads with 14 years of Gallup Polls, more about the art of Public Relations than about any substantive issue  of ‘Leadership’ or being a champion of ‘Women’s Rights’! The inconvenient historical record of the Clinton Team, you … Continue reading →

The Luce political hysterics almost gives way to a near recognition of the danger of Mrs. Clinton, yet it remains in the realm of conjecture. The fact that Bush II Neo-Cons recognize the Trump Danger is almost comic, in its … Continue reading →

Is there a more accomplished writer/propagandist in the English speaking world than Mr. Ganesh? ( Is there a novel or a screenplay, on his desk that he works on in his spare time?)  When Mr. Ganesh mutes his usual bile … Continue reading →

Here is the concluding paragraph of Mr. Bromwich’s wan, almost apology, for Mrs. Clinton, he seems torn. Trump is such an easy target, he is always the Ringmaster of television fame. But Bromwich is a writer of the school of … Continue reading →

A reader must approach with caution Mr. Wolf’s review of Wolfgang Streeck’s book ‘How Capitalism Will End’. The opening paragraph is demonstrative of Mr. Wolf’s defensive posture. The first sentence has the ring of the King James Bible about it, … Continue reading →

The Financial Times is fortunate to have Mr. Stubb, or Mr.  90%, as one of its stable of writers/propagandists. Whose made to measure definition Liberalism is puzzlingly simplistic, or just politically self-serving? ‘… who believe in a combination of democracy, … Continue reading →