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Newspaper Reader on The Financial Times and Trumpian chicanery!

Trumpian chicanery renders any attempt at finding motive and reasons, for self-serving political and economic manipultion, are moot? Exploitable Chaos is The Trumpian métier ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 12, 2025 Headline: Global stocks soar as Donald Trump backs down from trade … Continue reading

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Straussian Bret Stephens’ vain search for the moral/political high ground?

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 09, 2025 Headline: There’s Nothing Real About Trump’s ‘Real America’ … I’ve been thinking about this case as an emblem of everything that makes Donald Trump’s presidency so vile and destructive, even when I’ve bent over backward to give … Continue reading

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On the re-birth of ‘The Organization Woman/Man’from Yale University Press?

Who can recall this ‘American Type’, once lost in the fog of a yester-year, reivegortated in The Age Of Trump, asks Political Observer? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 03, 2025 A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of … Continue reading

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Edward Skidelsky from 1999: Perry Anderson ‘a strangely conservative figure’!

Political Observer on the value and necessity of actual History! stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 02, 2025 19 March 1999 The New Statesman Profile – Perry Anderson He is one of Britain’s great Marxist intellectuals, yet now he seems a strangely conservative figure … Continue reading

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I recall the salad days of ‘The Literary Wittgenstein’ quite well! John Holbo, of National University of Singapore of 2005.06.02 offers a telling critique!

Philosophical Apprentice offers a brief, but telling sample of John Holbo’s revelatory essay ! stephenkmacksd.com/ The Literary Wittgenstein John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer (eds.), The Literary Wittgenstein, Routledge, 2004, 368pp, $33.95 (pbk), ISBN 0415289734. Reviewed by John Holbo, National University of … Continue reading

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@NSegaunes doesn’t just write of the retirement of Alexis Kohler, but in her own melodramatic way kisses Macron’s Ring.

American Reader comments on Le Monde’s ‘Political Centrism’ as ‘Neo-Liberal Apologetics’ ! Editor: A brief preamble: The Reader needs to approach with caution Nathalie Segaunes essay! With the Trump/Vance meeting with Zelensky, that signaled the not quite end of American … Continue reading

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@andrewmarr9 solidifies the notion that The New Statesman motto of ‘New Times, New Thinking’ betreys the Tradition of Sidney and Beatrice Webb & others!

Newspaper Reader is un-surprised. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 27, 2025 Headline: Keir Starmer finally has a vision for Britain Sub-headline: Energised by international events, the Prime Minister has defined his ideas for the state. Editor: The Reader can’t be surprised by this … Continue reading

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Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves : From the 22 Billion overspend, to the BBC’s £9.5bn.

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 26, 2025 Pensioners without heat are not the only problem that Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves face, besides that utterky anemic 1% growth rate! And the argued 22 billion over-spend that is left beind, and … Continue reading

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Michael Lind on Richard Nixon, Donald Trump & a Possible Future?

Newspaper Reader chatters while ‘The West’ … stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 25, 2025 Headline: Michael Lind: Trump represents a nationalist tradition that goes back to Nixon’ Sub-headline: Despite his inconsistencies, the American president has always criticized free trade and the American military … Continue reading

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Robert Colvile regurgitates @bariweiss column of March 18, 2025!

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 23, 2025 Headline: Abundance is the new buzzword on the US left. Now it’s coming here Sub-headline : The US left’s focus on redistribution is failing. A new approach, emphasising economic growth, is gaining traction … Continue reading

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