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Newspaper Reader: On the toxic menace of Rousseau, Marx and Nietzsche! Yet Adam Smith remains outside this Economist political evaluation? stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 31, 2026 Editor: the opening paragraphs of this diatribe the Econonist fellow traverls provide a sketch of what … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader offers these essay from January 18, 2026, on ‘The Cult of Reinhold Niebuhr’ wedded to the self-congratulation of an unapologetic New York Times War Monger! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 30, 2026 David Brooks and Reinhold Niebuhr: A selection of my … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader on The Economists’ Zanny Menton Beddoes as would be Photo-Journalist in black & white : Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Lee Miller were the real thing ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 29, 2026 https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/01/29/ices-impunity-is-a-formula-for-more-violence

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 29, 2026 Thursday, January 29, 2026 Today’s Paper Dow -0.35%

Publius. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 28, 2026 Publius on Elizabeth Drew’s latest essay Posted on February 2, 2012 by stephenkmacksd http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/feb/23/can-we-have-democratic-e… Here is Elizabeth Drew’s latest essay in the New York Review of Books, Can We Have a Democratic Election? In which she raises many … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 28, 2026 Editor: I will focus my attentions on the final paragraphs of Stephens diatribe! … Iran’s traumatized protesters might have been energized by a U.S. attack when they were still in the street; they … Continue reading →

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/abolish-ice-reading-list?utm_source=klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=abolish_ice&_kx=B0r_2u1tAQYvQGEhqe9JK1cxX8zqaZgfLm7MpsT5Suc.SNgHad stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 27, 2026 We’re offering Stephen Graham’s powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life, Cities Under Siege, as a free download. Discount applies in-cart. Cities Under Siege by Stephen Graham Cities are the new battleground … Continue reading →

Thank you Stephen Howard and Cambridge Elements! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 25, 2026 Editor: Reading, or in reality reciting to myself ‘Kants Late Philosophy of Nature’ in the Cambridge Elements series. Kant’s final drafts, known as his Opus postumum, attempt to make what he … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 23, 2026 Headline: An era of distrust emerges between the US and its Western allies Sub-headline: Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US could seize Greenland by force has exposed the strategic isolation his administration has … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 22, 2026 Editor: Here are the opening paragraphs of the perpetual, self congratulatory chatter of Bret Stephens, garnished via Thomas Mann. But carefully elided from the vision, the amerness of NYT reader, Mann’s sexual longing for … Continue reading →