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Please look at these three essays: Mike Lofgren at Truthout http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779 John B. Judis  at The New Republic http://www.tnr.com/article/john-judis/92958/obama-lincoln-debt-ceiling John Gray at The Financial Times http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/059dda68-d30f-11e0-9aae-00144feab49a.html#axzz1X5bwcAGN Some chapters from a book on America's decline titled:The Rise of the Republican Political … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/opinion/brooks-the-rugged-altruists.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss How could I have missed this gem from David Brooks published on August 22 ,2011 titled The Rugged Altruists. One is not surprised that Mr. Brooks comes swiftly to the conclusion that altruism must draw its  inspiration and operational … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/28/9-11-s-10th-anniversary-the-death-of-neoconservatism.html After reading Mr. Beinart’s essay I found myself contemplating a question: who did he write this for? Is Neo-Conservatism dead, or can even an unsophisticated reader like myself draw certain conclusions, from other sources, that might just put his … Continue reading →

Here is Professor Rodgers stunning historical precis of the Mythology of the Market as idea, political,economic and legal practice, in our national life. The pernicious idea of the Market as metaphysical quantity,historical/political actor and household god is here treated to … Continue reading →

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5542.html I’m reading this in the morning and at bed time. I can’t read just one book. The confessions of a bibliophile, or just the result of my relentless intellectual ambition?

‘Like Adam Smith’s pin factory, these were metaphors all. The timeless, placeless,self-equilibrating register of individual preferences that was now more and more often being called “the market” was an abstraction , as complex and intricately manipulatable a figure of speech … Continue reading →

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=30906   My current reading is Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers. I’m facing the challenge of self-doubt as a reader. I’m swimming against a rough tide of my own ignorance, although Professor Rodgers writing is fluent and it’s … Continue reading →