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You have to give Mr. Signorile credit for his work for Gay Equality while recognizing that his tactic of ‘outing’ prominent public persons as gay was redolent of Robespierre’s political practice of public denunciation or even, more contemporaneously, with the … Continue reading →

Haven’t read Mr. Frum for quite a while ! One conjectures, is a book in the works? But Mr. Frum proves his value as a Bush Apologist, as this essay demonstrates. But not without some rhetorical sideswipes at Ms. Clinton, … Continue reading →

It’s probably too much to ask that Mr. Luce face the terrible fact that we now live in a Post-Neo-Liberal world, or more simply the utter decline of that spent political delusion, still in it’s death rattle : witness the … Continue reading →

Where else, but at The Economist, would a shopworn Neo-Liberal like Mayor Emanuel receive plaudits for his snappy one-liners, and his slavish recitation/practice of the cliches, of the utterly failed economic/political paradigm of that same Neo-Liberalism? Where else might the … Continue reading →

The Reactionary Political Template remains the same across generations: The Salem Witch Trials, the Palmer Raids, the utterly shameful Japanese Internment and last, but not least, the political rise of McCarthy and his allies whose slogan was ‘a generation of … Continue reading →

You have to credit Mr. Lake with a certain consistency. Just a cursory reading of his latest essay demonstrates that if you are old enough to recall the Cold War, the strategy is the same as his historical precursors, except … Continue reading →

Here are four paragraphs from Mr. Douthat’s March 28, 2015 essay that seem more pertinent than his analysis of the difference between the ‘Pax Americana’ model of Foreign Policy and the ‘offshore balancing system’. Title it Douthat’s Potted History. The … Continue reading →

The opening paragraph of Ms. Rubin’s latest essay, On an Iran deal, reports of concessions galore  is carefully framed as imaginative reconstruction/speculation as the in order too of  placing blame on the French, for leaks from the P5+1 negotiations: one … Continue reading →

‘Much has happened in between; mass deregulation of international banking, technological advancements in trading, and the use of the World Bank (and the IMF and various central banks) to subsidize bank led speculation by submitting weak countries to austerity measures … Continue reading →

C.R. does a workman like job in his essay NIMBY’s in the twenty-first century of Piketty Bashing, briefly sharing the stage with other ‘Left Wing’ intellectual celebrities:  ‘… Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s leather-jacket wearing finance minister, Naomi Klein and Russell Brand…’  … Continue reading →