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Philosophical Apprentice comments. The Reader needn’t resort to the doom saying political hysterics of Niall Ferguson, to find that ‘we’ are in trouble, of the most dire kind! That Reader just needs to consult this ‘essay’ for a package of bad news. The Economist … Continue reading →

Old Socialist’s brief commentary. Mr. Stephens can reach a state of high dungeon, in just moments, and maintain it’s screeching intensity, over the course of 868 words, in his latest moralizing diatribe. With telling changes of scene for Oregon to Portugal: … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. As a preface to my comment: The Reader, as always, confronts the Stalinist Erasure of 2016: after the resignation of David Cameron precipitated by the Brexit vote, the rise of Mrs. May, the defamation of Jeremy Corbyn … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Mr. Wooldridge’s essay about Sunak is awash in political cynicism? its a convenient posture, that almost mimics critical thinking, under a heavy veneer of the ersatz. Note that Wooldridge ‘shows’ Sunak in his various guises in the first three … Continue reading →

The Political Toxin of Jean Monnet’s Coal and Steel Cartel. @michelleinbklyn is the very bottom tier of The New York Times Public Intellectuals. The E.U. has been subject to, not just harsh criticism, across the political spectrum, but it’s utter … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Mr. Stephens doesn’t quite reach the level of apologetics that fellow Neo-Con Francis Fukuyama expresses: Headline: Author Francis Fukuyama, a Stanford fellow, backs far-right Azov group after school visit https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/fukuyama-senior-fellow-stanford-far-right-group-18193614.php Francis Fukuyama, a well-known author and researcher … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. The Reader experiences a kind of political vertigo, while reading this meandering ‘essay’. Even Tom Friedman and David Brooks manage to express coherence of very particular kinds, in their political/moral/commentaries. Frank Bruni’s political observation, are tinctured in Pop … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. Mr Ferguson no longer writes a column of opinion, but now resorts to that Straussian Methodology of writing a 2,626 word manifesto. That apes the Starussian ‘History of Philosophy’ as re-written in light of ideological imperatives ? … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Headline: Tony Blair gazes into a mirror and finds Keir Starmer seeking approval Sub-headline: Is Labour leader finally prepared to declare the party’s most successful prime minister is the model to follow, asks John Rentoul? https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-starmer-tony-blair-conference-b2377485.html … … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. As a long time reader of The New York Review of Books: 1971 to the present: Mr. Remnick was part of a ‘Left Coterie’ that included Robert Silvers, the editor of NYRB. Silvers idolized Kennan , he appeared often, … Continue reading →