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More predictable hysterical chatter ! Is your strategy to flood the internet with your ‘journalism’, masquerading as thoughtful observation and comment? The picture that accompanied your tweet, of the lonely despairing pensioner was a propaganda coup de théâtre! A partial … Continue reading →

Even if the contents of Ms. Nemtsova’s carefully constructed bill of attainder are true, the critical reader has the historical  facts of the Ukrainian Coup, as an object lesson of EU and US NGO’s as subversive operatives, in the installation … Continue reading →

 ‘Ryan admitted, though, that he didn’t know the exact context for Bush’s remarks.’ Ryan is a political propagandist who disguised his Budget Proposals as actual Budgets, and political hacks like Douthat fell all over themselves, in calling this merde ‘policy … Continue reading →

Mayor Emanuel is a Neo-Liberal, although not in the sense that President Obama is. The Mayor does not hide his particular brand of that odious utopianism, as the timid president did  behind the fading rhetoric of of 2008.The President has … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce strikes a less strident note than Mr. Barber did on July 5th in the Financial Times. In fact Mr. Barber’s essay reflects a case of full blown political hysterics, doom saying garnished with pertinent historical references. Everything but … Continue reading →

It must be said that it is truly impressive that the Financial Times has procured the services of Jacques Delors the ‘Icon of Europe’ according to Derk-Jan Eppink  in his ‘Life of a European Mandarin : Inside the Commission’, quite … Continue reading →

The Greeks are not yet asking for debt forgiveness, but an end to utterly failed Austerity: the ‘strong medicine’ of the IMF, that is prescribed regardless of circumstance, or more pointedly as the cure for the Welfare State as a … Continue reading →

Spoken like a true  Economic Moralist: Neo-Liberal!  See this essay by Ms. Tett at The Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/927efd1e-9c32-11e4-b9f8-00144feabdc0.html A telling excerpt from Ms. Tett’s essay via Benjamin Friedman: ‘Last summer I found myself in that spot for a conference, having … Continue reading →

As Xenos points out quite convincingly Strauss’ esoteric re-reading of the Tradition was an attempt at self-rescue, from his demonstrable philosophical propinquity with Schmitt. The American context necessitated a revisionism that showed Strauss as heroic philosophical trailblazer, rather than a … Continue reading →

Besides the usual, even obligatory, Left bashing, what leavens this serio-comic chatter, what rhetorically frames this essay is A Clockwork Orange and the ideas of the prominent Panglossian Steven Pinker. The Clockwork Olive is Mr. Ferguson’s attempt to meet the … Continue reading →