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It has been some time since we have read Mr. Caldwell in the pages of The Financial Times. As background to reading Caldwell on the American Trump phenomenon, and to further the readers knowledge of his idiosyncratic Neo-Conservative world view, … Continue reading →

Monsignor Douthat’s remit as Opus Dei operative in American Life is to patrol the wombs of American women, to prattle on about ‘out of wedlock births’ the Mortal Sin of abortion and the general Moral Decline, as some of the … Continue reading →

Here is where Mr. Sullivan’s essay actually begins, in his natural habitat, the cocktail party of movers and shakers in Washington D.C. ‘And so, as I chitchatted over cocktails at a Washington office Christmas party in December, and saw,…’ One … Continue reading →

Sam Rye posted a link to Mr. Taibbi’s compelling essay at the very stogy, not to speak of Corporatist Financial Times: http://on.ft.com/292vrCK Mr . Rye makes the soundest kind of argument that Mr. Taibbi makes a case of more cogency … Continue reading →

Headline: I do not believe that Brexit will happen Sub-Headline : There will be howls of rage, but why should extremists on both sides dictate how the story ends? Gideon Rachman is in high dungeon at the Brexit vote and … Continue reading →

Chris C. Thank you for your comment. As Yanis Varoufakis pointed out the EU began life as a cartel, although eventually garnished with the trappings of Democracy, and from my point of view   needs to be reformed, from the ground … Continue reading →

I’ve been expecting Bagehot’s comment on the Brexit, but I wonder where he has been, and what he has not been reading? The Rebellion Against The Elites has been the Party Line at The Financial Times, the once sister publication … Continue reading →

Headline: ‘Brexit deals a grievous blow to the international order’ Sub-headline: ‘The repercussions in Europe will be incalculable, writes Tony Barber’ To what international order does Mr. Barber refer ? The Neo-Liberal order collapsed with a deafening crash in 2008. … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the editors at the Financial Times, your political desperation has reached a kind of denouement, in Mr. Gavin’s  historical meditation on  Henry VIII and his break with the Catholic Church, over his divorce and his eventual confiscation of … Continue reading →

I’m working my way through Prof. McCloskey’s The Rhetoric of Economics, second edition. There is no more elegant, erudite a writer on The Dismal Science.( Economists, like Lawyers, are by nature self-celebrants.)  Yet the reader comes to her last paragraph, … Continue reading →