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Here is a copy of page 100 and 101 of Cloaked in Virtue. I have provided a link to a copy that can be enlarged for easier reading : https://goo.gl/WzYPNu In this page and a half Xenos describes the Straussian … Continue reading →

On the dubious question of ‘mis-remembering Reagan’ A quotation from his notorious ‘States Rights’ speech that opened his 1980 campaign, see this quotation that leaves no doubt, in terms of content and place, that Reagan was a Southern Strategist completely … Continue reading →

‘Club Med’ is a maladroit attempt at insulting the Greeks, it riffs off of the Profligate Southern Tier myth. See this from Forbes, carefully framed in the notion of inefficiency, after all it is Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/03/13/contrary-to-what-most-people-think-greeks-work-the-longest-hours-in-europe-infographic/ Headline:Contrary To What Most … Continue reading →

Mr. Tusk is a most welcome guest at The Financial Times: first it is ‘Left’ and ‘Right’, political radicalism that threatens the EU, but then Mr. Tusk gets to the central argument that resonates with both its editors and readers: … Continue reading →

Mr. Weiss and his co-author Ms. Youssef have produced an impressive piece of propaganda, using Assad as their starting point, except that they eventually become immersed in quoting from their  dubious political allies: Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the … Continue reading →

Mr. Gelb’s essay is welcome, in the face of the predictable Republican/American Likudnik hysterics. But Mr. Gelb fails to mention the fact that if anyone has upset the nuclear balance of power in the ‘Middle East’ it is Israel, too … Continue reading →

You have to just wonder,almost, at the screeching Republican/Neo-Con united political front on the Iran Agreement, and then compare it to the TPA/TPP alliance vote. The TPP was/is a state secret, yet the Republican Corporatists sided with the president on … Continue reading →

Here is a quote from The Lacanian Delusion that describes Strauss with stinging accuracy! “His style ,then, is specifically designed to ward off simplification, but more generally , to defy any translation that would gloss over the words at issue … Continue reading →

Central to the Neo-Confederate/Originalist political myth is Brown I and II, as an attack on American Feudalism: white male power as above any kind of challenge. See The Rehnquist Choice by John Dean for confirmation of that political connection. The … Continue reading →

Where does Mr. Troy actually begin his argument? Not in the first paragraphs larded with self-congratulation of the legal expert. Legal narcissism is the disease of the profession!  And the assurances that he knows his American Law, supported by apposite … Continue reading →