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This essay, written by Kerin Hope and Tony Barber, has all the cheap melodrama of a Dragnet episode, circa 1954, starring Jack Webb complete with wanted posters! Is there no end to the mendacity of the Neo-Liberal Apologists whose world … Continue reading →

The New Cold War hysteria mongering has reached a vigorous simmer here at The Economist. Putin as The New Stalin is the star of this and many other episodes of this long running, or better yet call it interminable melodrama : … Continue reading →

Republishing  this 2006 essay, as an obituary for Mr. Grass, or it’s stand in,  can only be properly described as a chickenshit attack on him, no other epithet describes it as succinctly : he was 12 years old in 1939 … Continue reading →

Is this the point, in the continuing political conversation here at the Financial Times, where we can safely declare Mr. Luce a feminist? It’s as burning a question as any that could be asked, or can we surmise as regular … Continue reading →

When thinking about Mr. Brooks it becomes self-evident that he shares much in common with the self-hating, relentlessly hectoring tradition of Paul, Augustine and Jerome, with the addition of the Puritan religious politics of Cotton Mather. The notion that worldly … Continue reading →

From reading this essay, one might just surmise that various ‘reporters’ contributed parts of it, and then the editors cobbled together the final version, in a long but productive conference: Neo-Liberals have many points of agreement.The point of the conference … Continue reading →

The perennial political weather forecast for American Likudniks/Neo-Conservatives: it is always Munich and/or Yalta! The give away: the operative word/metaphor ‘appeasement’. And he is not above a cliche ridden public shaming of that European ‘appeasement’, that is redolent with the … Continue reading →

Mr. Rachman names Paul Kennedy at Yale, Niall Ferguson at Harvard and Ian Morris at Stanford as the major practitioners of Declinism, but for those of us who came of age in mid-century America, will recall that this triad of … Continue reading →