Oct 06, 2025
The leftwing Socialist party also threatened to vote the government down unless Lecornu suspended Macron’s signature pension reforms.
Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon described Macron as “the origin of the chaos” and called on him to resign to enable fresh presidential elections, a move the president has repeatedly ruled out.
Oct 04, 2025
Opinion Life & Arts
The war against the quite good
The bidding war for geniuses will antagonise those just below
Janan Ganesh
https://www.ft.com/content/0fc44c6b-277c-4472-a235-65f59a9195f3
Editor: Janan almost pulls out all the stops, for his latest, what to name it? Self-congratulaton in its future iteration? All in jest of a kind? His readers wallow in his impecable education University of Warwick, University College London, Harris Academy South Norwood education not quite an ‘Oxbrideger’ but in close proximity, like his relationship to his deathbed?
On my deathbed, as the burial site at Westminster Abbey is being prepared, and a weeping Nobel delegation bother me at my 12-bedroom Highgate estate with still another prize, I will spare one last thought for the species. What about people below the genius threshold? How is society to look after the merely very competent?
Editor: Under the rubric of ‘The Broken Masters of Capital’ which Ganesh laudes!
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Peter Thiel made this point on The James Altucher Show while discussing his recently released book (Zero to One). At minute 11:35 of the podcast, he mentions how some of the more successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley share this common “dysfunction”:
“One of the strange things in Silicon Valley is that so many of these successful entrepreneurs suffer from a mild form of Asperger’s or something like that. And I always think of this as an incredible indictment of our society: What sort of society is it where, if you do not have Asperger’s, you will pick up on all these social cues that discourage you from pursuing creative original ideas.”
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I ask because the world is in danger of over-rewarding an inspired few. The best AI researchers and engineers can name their price as companies vie to hoard talent. Sam Altman talks of “crazy intense comp for a very small number of people right now”. Something similar is going on in finance and law. There is no longer much squeamishness about admitting the uneven distribution of talent. Woke, with its flattening ethos, has ebbed, and unions are weak in the most advanced industries.
Editor: the final sentence of this paragraph reminds this reader of Ganesh of another time, of the evolution of his talent, with the adaptation of the feuilleton, no matter how etiolated as expressive tool!
At this point, the moral custom is to worry about people with the fewest marketable skills. But it is not as if the world was treating them well before. The real news is the fallen status of those just a notch or two down from the most sought-after. Will someone not speak up for the quite good?
Editor: The Reader has to wonder at Ganesh political/moral trajectory here?
A quite good job in journalism used to be sweet indeed. Even newspapers in secondary American cities would post staff to New Delhi and Rome. That life is still attainable at the very grandest titles but the Baltimore Sun, say, closed its last foreign bureau long ago.
Editor: In this paragraph Ganesh regales his readership with borrowed chatter!
A quite good artist used to do well. Before the invention of the gramophone, said the writer and advertising executive Rory Sutherland, “there was a decent living to be made as the fifth best operatic tenor in Denmark”. Once audiences were no longer confined to local music, these singers lost out to the best in the world market. In the Spotify era, when the marginal cost of streaming a song from another continent is zero, pray for them.
Editor: Ganesh regales the reader with : ‘a sort of Muskian impatience’ & ‘The difference between quite good and great trading is measurable. And so the worship of the very best becomes right (or at least righteous). This Reader just wonders at Ganesh’s flacid 105 words!
The quite good will always prosper in lines of work that are site-specific, and therefore somewhat screened from world competition. There are still loads of quite good restaurants. But in tech, multi-manager hedge funds and other disembodied sectors, which don’t just make the largest fortunes but also set wider cultural norms, a sort of Muskian impatience with the less-than-brilliant is part of the atmosphere. And not because these are colder people. The difference between quite good and great music is arbitrary. The difference between quite good and great trading is measurable. And so the worship of the very best becomes right (or at least righteous).
Editor: What a reader confronts here is a Ganesh, who self-presents in the guise of ‘dry liberal’ a term of wan political abuse?
The dry liberal in me isn’t so worried. If a luminous few make world-changing breakthroughs in their field, we might come to regard them as cheap at the price. If not, the auction for their talent should calm down over time.
Editor: Ganesh in this paragraph features: latent Tory, the most primitive Marxian, New England trader, George III’s taxes,….
It is the latent Tory, the worrier about social order, that does wince a bit. You’d have to be C to still believe that revolutions must always come from far below. In fact, it is the Weimar shopkeeper inflated out of their savings, the New England trader who felt George III’s taxes, who often rebels. That is, the person who sees their quite good status threatened. The person with enough education and confidence to assert themselves.
Editor: The once usual Ganesh political bravado is ebbing! The quotation of Tyler Cowan, of the utterly reactinaty Free Press, and its notorious cadre of Zionist Apologists alerts The Reader!
The 21st century equivalent would seem to be — what? — a smart if not quite dazzling graduate, snubbed by the top-end recruitment round and less and less able to fall back on the ever-scarcer graduate entry job. That is a lot of savvy people to upset. The economist Tyler Cowen wrote that Average Is Over. It would be a bigger threat to civic peace if even Far Above Average Is Over.
Editor: The Reader confronts the final paragraph framed by the Premier League vs. Arsenal framed by ‘ with Liverpool somewhat Nietzschean in their stress on the epic individual. What fun it will be to watch a wider social tension play out in miniature, without the disturbing stakes’ Reader this is seriocomic shit!
At this time of year, the Premier League season settles into some kind of pattern. What have we learnt? That Arsenal’s average player is probably better than Liverpool’s average player, but Liverpool’s elite few trump Arsenal’s elite few. This is a contest between not just two different recruitment strategies but almost two contrasting world views, with Liverpool somewhat Nietzschean in their stress on the epic individual. What fun it will be to watch a wider social tension play out in miniature, without the disturbing stakes.
https://www.ft.com/content/0fc44c6b-277c-4472-a235-65f59a9195f3
Newspaper Reader.
Editor: A well agued reply to Mr. Ganesh!
N.R.
Editor: Is this the precurser of Janan Ganesh ?
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https://www.economist.com/business/2025/10/05/bonfire-of-the-middle-managers
Oct 03, 2025
Apr 09, 2022
The reader, before she attempts to read Mr. Tooze’s 3,415 word essay, might profit from reading Molly Fischer’s essay at New York Magazine.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adam-tooze-profile.html
Ms. Fischer’s essay at 5,224 words wallows in Fan Magazine gush, that informs the magazine’s readers what they should ‘think’ about Mr. Tooze, and his Fan Base! this magazine tells its readers where to eat, it keeps its readers current on the most watched television/internet programs, and its political columnists keep their readership up to date on what they should think about politics, and Madam Clairvoyant…, the latest bargains on clothes, shoes and other commodities that a New York magazine reader might need- Its a would be Silver-Fork Handbook for those who live and die by the latest trends, in the life of the New York cognoscenti, or its pretenders. The pretense of being dans la mode is the lingua franca of New York social life!
Mr. Tooze in his near historically sophisticated essay, though he can’t quite match the talent of Janan Ganesh for such rhetorical curlicues, and stylistic panache, as cover for his reactionary politicking! Mr. Tooze manages to impress with adroitly executed, not to speak of its intellectual/philosophical breath, of his particular expression of a History Made to Measure! These paragraphs demonstrates Mr. Tooze’s facility, to engage in historical pastiche of near understatement?
It was the French Revolution that defined the stakes in modern war as an existential clash between nations in arms, in which fundamental principles of rule were in question. War was the world spirit on the march. That is what the German poet Goethe thought he witnessed at the Battle of Valmy in 1792, where a rag-tag revolutionary army unexpectedly turned back a much better-equipped counter-revolutionary invasion by royalist and Prussian forces. “From this day forth,” he wrote, “begins a new era in the history of the world.” Two days later, the French Republic was declared.
A “world-soul” on horseback is what Hegel thought he saw, as Napoleon cantered through the city of Jena in October 1806 on his way to the battle that would push the Prussian state to the brink of extinction. War was not simply a violent practice of princes, a duel writ large. War was History with a capital H – the “slaughter-bench”, Hegel would call it – “at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised”. It was something both fascinating and horrifying. Transformative and yet also on the edge of tipping over into absolute violence, as in the horrors of guerrilla war in Spain, depicted by Goya. Two centuries later, in the commentary on the war in Ukraine, one can feel the same spirit stirring.
The spectacle of war has always evoked mixed emotions. On the one hand, enthusiasm and something akin to relief: here, finally, is real politics, real freedom. And, on the other hand, horror at the violence, suffering and destruction.
In the wake of Waterloo in 1815, both diplomacy and contemporary social science tried to put the genie back in the bottle. For all his grandeur, Napoleon had been defeated. Millions had died in the global wars sparked by the French Revolution, and his project of modernising empire had come to naught. The lesson, according to the followers of the sociologist Auguste Comte, was that the future belonged to industry, not to the soldiers.
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Later in his essay Mr. Tooze engages in this explanation of American Seer Francis Fukuyama:
That this terrifying stand-off ended with the largely peaceful overthrow of the communist regimes in Europe in 1989 persuaded Francis Fukuyama, then a member of the policy planning staff at the US State Department, that we had reached “the End of History”. This is often described as a triumph of capitalism and democracy. It was certainly that, but no less significant was that the West had won the military contest without firing a shot in anger. The Warsaw Pact folded. By the time of Leonid Brezhnev, from the 1960s onwards, the Soviet system no longer seemed worth dying for. Mercifully, that spared Nato the question of whether the world was better off dead than red.
Anchored in American power and depoliticised neoliberalism, Fukuyama’s vision of the End of History remains a compelling interpretation of the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The ideological contest seemed settled in favour of a one-dimensional vision of liberal democracy, the rule of law and markets.
The achievement of the End of History consisted in not just the triumph of the liberal model, but in that it was attained bloodlessly. That gave it both its sense of inevitability and, as Fukuyama wrote, its post-heroic quality.
Of course, the End of History did not mean the end of events or the end of war. That threat of nuclear destruction continued to hang over us. Under the de-targeting agreement of 1994, the coordinates of major cities were removed from the computers of Russian and American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). But they could be loaded back if required. We still live under the menace of absolute atrocity. Meanwhile, actual wars have continued to be fought. But war has changed
A Strussian offers a warmed over Hegelianism, and the American Intellectual/Philosophical Provincials were instantly smitten by Fukuyama’s World Historical Merde. And what does ‘depoliticised neoliberalism’ represent but an utter lack of intellectual honesty, in service to self-promotion of Mr. Tooze – to establish his political conformity. This whole essay is awash in that imperative.
More History Made to Measure foreshortened:
The Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s was perhaps the last conflict in which two sides commanding substantial armed forces had everything at stake; any means could be mobilised to secure victory and neither side could afford to lose. The bloodiest wars in more recent decades – notably those in the former Yugoslavia, central Africa and Syria – were sprawling civil wars, often involving multiple non-state actors. In Iraq and Afghanistan the stakes were existential, but only for the locals. The US, which led the invasions, was shaken by the 9/11 attacks, but the global war on terror was always more of a policing action than a conventional war.
The Reader has arrived, after Mr. Tooze groundwork has been laid from the large canvas to the mere sketch, at Putin:
The question posed by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is whether in this fundamental sense the spell of the End of History has finally been broken. Has history restarted in a tragic key, as President Macron has recently put it? Have we reached the end of the end of military history?
The answer we give to that question initially depends on the interpretation of Putin’s motives.
There is yet 2,379 words left in Mr. Tooze’s polemic against Putin, still framed by ‘The End of History’, a crippled antique by a Staussian foot-soldier. The topic sentences of the remains of this essay, offer some vital clues as to the arguments Mr. Tooze marshals. Note that Mr. Tooze employs the Straussian rhetorical strategy of exhausting both the critical acuity of The Reader, and her patience!
The most obvious reading is that he has never accepted the verdict delivered by history in 1991.
But if this is his basic motivation why in 2022 was he willing to risk the ultimate trial of battle?
One argument is that Putin gambled because he is a man of war.
This embrace of war leads some analysts to describe Putin as a man of the 19th century.
These are pleasingly simple ideas.
The defining characteristic of the Russian invasion, other than its brutality, is the sense of history repeating itself as farce.
In this reading, far from rupturing the End of History, or forcing a return to primal conflict, Putin saw himself as adjusting an anomaly created by the overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych government in 2014.
Perhaps the most telling moment came when the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, denounced Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as a “war of choice”.
Putin’s invasion and the attack on Iraq in 2003 by the US-led coalition have in common a disregard for both international law and geopolitical logic that left much of the rest of the world aghast.
In the war in Ukraine, the wildcard is the Ukrainians.
But we should beware our Eurocentric prejudices.
What marks this war as different is that the Ukrainian resistance has stopped Putin’s invasion in its tracks.
The result is that Putin awakens from the resentful nightmare of Russia’s post-Cold War memory into a bona fide, existential crisis, a “real war” that the Russian army is far from certain of winning
Again, the experience of defeat and discredit on the part of the larger power is not itself novel.
To escape the nightmare, Putin may choose to escalate the invasion, even toying with the nuclear option
Putin may have challenged the post-Cold War order but, given the liminal status of Ukraine – neither a member of the EU nor of Nato – and the underwhelming performance of the Russian military, which makes an attack on the Baltics or Poland seem unlikely, it is up to others, principally China and the Western alliance, to decide what to make of this clash.
Ukraine, of course, has every interest in using the momentum of its early successes to widen the conflict.
Clearly, if it so chose, Nato could turn this war into World War Three.
Putin’s allegation that Ukraine was being developed as a base from which to strike at the soft underbelly of Russia seems less plausible now than it did before the war.
Although Joe Biden has blurted out his indignation that bad characters like Putin are in charge of modern states, the West remains shy about embracing regime change as its ultimate goal
As critics of the interwar order like Carl Schmitt sensed, the hegemony of the victorious powers in 1918 threatened the first End of History.
In 2022, if Putin were to be brought down by military frustration and economic exhaustion, and were his regime to be replaced by one that was pro-Western and ready for peace, all those who have levelled cheap criticism at Fukuyama over the years would owe him a giant apology
However, if the war does not escalate to a Third World War and Putin’s regime does not collapse, there will be no option but to face the difficult business of diplomacy and peace-making
Mr. Tooze demonstrates that he is a political/moral conformist, he is not John Mearsheimer, but another of a long line of apologist for the murderous political interventionism, of the Centrism of the political present: the alliance between the Neo-Liberals and the Neo-Conservatives!
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Not to the reader:
On question of Hegel, let me offer my experience of trying to read The Phenomenology of the Spirit: I was stopped at entry 243, as I recall it in utter bewilderment, and then read Hegel’s Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit by Michael N. Forster. It took me months to read this book, impressive doesn’t quite cover the scope of Prof. Forster scholarship.
Political Cynic
Oct 03, 2025
Editor: Reader don’t waste your time, with tired old and shopworn Neo-Liberal dogmas!! Jeffery Friedman (Editor) and his experts offer critical evaluations, not just carefully modulated aplogetics, that eventuated in the 2006-2008 Economic Collapse !
by Jeffery Friedman (Editor)
The easy to read Table of Contents, offer The Reader titles, their authors.
Political Observer.
Oct 03, 2025
From the Magazine
May 2019 Issue
Mad About Bari Weiss: The New York Times Provocateur the Left Loves to Hate
The Times op-ed writer is a Trump-loathing theater nerd who studied at a feminist yeshiva and used to date Kate McKinnon. She also led a controversial protest at Columbia, and popularized the “intellectual dark Web.” The contradictions of a social-media lightning rod.
By Evgenia PeretzPhotography by Martin SchoellerStyled by Nicole Chapoteau
April 24, 2019
Bari Weiss to be named top editor at CBS News
Paramount Skydance will acquire the journalist’s publication, the Free Press, which she started after quitting the New York Times in 2020.
October 3, 2025 at 9:08 a.m. EDT Today at 9:08 a.m. EDT
By Will Oremus , Caroline O’Donovan, Jeremy Barr
The newly formed media giant Paramount Skydance will acquire the Free Press, an online publication, and install its iconoclastic founder, Bari Weiss, as editor in chief of CBS News, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Paramount Skydance is expected to announce Monday that it will pay $150 million in cash and stock for the Free Press and name Weiss to CBS News’s top editorial job, said one of the people, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the plans before they are formally announced.
The move heralds a new era at the 98-year-old broadcast network, whose corporate parents made moves to address the Trump administration’s allegations of liberal bias as they sought approval for an $8 billion merger that was finalized in August. The appointment of Weiss, a staunch advocate of Israel and frequent critic of the mainstream media, to lead the company’s news operation follows its hiring last month of a conservative-leaning ombudsman to field complaints about the network’s editorial coverage.
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Editor: Bari Weiss acts here as just another part of Zionist Cadre, she being the focus of attetion, that masks actual players in this journalistic coup d’état!
Newspaper Reader.
Oct 02, 2025
Reader recall that ‘Eurozine ‘was the propoganda arm of the 2014 Ukainian coup!
Political Observer defends Historical Memory!
Mar 05, 2025
The present day Apologists for the 2014 Ukraian Coup have elided from History this document authored by Neo-Con Timothy Snyder, and his fellow travelers, named in the section named ‘Locations’!
Ukraine: Thinking Together Kyiv, 15-19 May Manifesto
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Locations:
The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is located in the Podil’ neighborhood, on Kontraktova Square; the entrance to the Center for Polish and European Studies is on Voloska Street 8/5; the Culture and Arts Centre is on Illinska Street 9. The Diplomatic Academy is in central Kyiv, at Velyka Zhytomyrska Street 2. The Hotel Ukraine is on Instytutska Street 4. The InterContinental Hotel is on Velyka Zhytomyrs’ka Street 2A. Practical solidarity: This gathering was the initiative of Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic and Timothy Snyder of Yale University and was made possible by the willingness of colleagues to heed their call and agree to participate in great haste, and by the creativity and hard work of Tatiana Zhurzhenko and Oksana Forostyna. A number of partner institutions helped transform an idea into an event: the Batory Foundation, the Embassy of Canada, the Embassy of France, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, the Embassy of the United States of America, the European Endowment for Democracy, the European Forum for Ukraine, the Network of European Cultural Journals Eurozine, the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Français d’Ukraine, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), the International Renaissance Foundation, the Ukrainian cultural journal Krytyka, the National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy,” the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the National Endowment for Democracy, The New Republic, the Open Ukraine Foundation, the PinchukArtCentre, the Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies “Tkuma,” the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, and the Visual Culture Research Center.
Editor: Reader here is the latest iteration of Neo-Con Propaganda
EUROZINE
Making Putin happy again
Mykola Riabchuk 24 February 2025
https://www.eurozine.com/making-putin-happy-again/?pdf
Since Donald Trump’s call with Vladimir Putin on 12 February and a series of other diplomatic moves aimed at kicking off Russia–Ukraine peace talks, the war in Ukraine has returned to the top of the international media agenda. For outsiders, observing the war from a safe distance like an increasingly monotonous TV series, the plot has acquired finally a new turn, reviving flagging interest and sparking intense debate. But for Ukrainians, Trump’s ‘peacemaking’ initiatives are just another reminder of their subaltern, ‘pawn’ role on the geopolitical chessboard. The writing was already on the wall after Trump suggested that Ukraine ‘may be Russian someday’ (a reason to exploit Ukrainian rare earth minerals in advance); after vice president JD Vance insisted that ‘this war is between Russia and Ukraine’ (and that US military interference would not ‘advance American interests and security’); and after defence secretary Pete Hegseth stated that Ukraine should abandon its push to reclaim all Russian-occupied territory and forget about joining NATO. To add insult to injury, the US responded to Volodymyr Zelensky’s earlier offer of privileged access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in return for support with a virtually colonial demand for almost everything for almost nothing in return. The Daily Telegraph, which obtained a draft of the pre-decisional contract, called it ‘a new Versailles’: ‘If this draft were accepted, Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at the Versailles Treaty.’ Volodymyr Zelensky in Munich, February 14, 2025. Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett. Source: Wikimedia Commons Normally, the paper pointed out, such terms are imposed on aggressor states defeated in war. But Trump ‘seems willing to let Russia of the hook entirely’. Besides the purely economic issues, there was also the moral question whether it would be ‘honourable to treat a victim nation in this fashion after it has held the battle line for the liberal democracies at enormous sacrifice for three years. Who really has a debt to whom, may one ask?’
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Editor under the rubric of : ‘A new Molotov-Ribbentrop pact’, at the least ‘The Munich Agreement’ as so often used by Neo-Cons of the ‘West’ is absent! Mykola Riabchuk essay lends a more nuanced Historical tone?
Unsurprisingly, Trump’s ‘peacemaking’ initiatives were met in Ukraine with a mixture of anger, despair and black humour. Zelensky cancelled his visit to Saudi Arabia, scheduled for 20 February, two days after the Rubio–Lavrov meeting in Riyadh. He stated openly that he did not want to legitimize that meeting and its ‘decisions’. The fact that he was not invited to these talks, nor even consulted by the American partners beforehand, does not bode well for Ukraine’s eventual role in ‘big boys’ conversation. As an old saying goes, ‘if you are not at the table then you are on the menu’. While Zelensky tries to keep a brave face in bad game, Ukrainian media are overwhelmed with sarcasm, metaphors (the copulation of a frog with a snake might be the most graphic) and caustic cartoons. One of them – featuring Trump as a bride and Putin as a groom – bore a striking resemblance to cartoons showing a newly-wed Hitler and Stalin in 1939. As a Ukrainian publicist put it succinctly: ‘It’s not Munich 2.0. It’s more like a new Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.’ ‘We are entering a difficult, surreal state’, declared Olga Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent. ‘Our key ally, led by Donald Trump’s new administration, is turning against us and siding with our enemy.’ But the danger of Trump’s reckless cowboy diplomacy goes far beyond the fate of just Ukraine. His susceptibility to Putin’s arguments (partly because of ignorance, partly because of affinity) threaten the whole European continent if not the global order as a whole. After Vance’s speech in Munich and Trump’s arrogant and nonsensical statements the day after, Europeans can no longer neglect a responsibility that they have habitually outsourced to American partners. How far and how effectively this motley crew of thirtyplus nations will move remains to be seen. But at least it gives Ukraine a chance to survive in the new environment, even though it would require even more painful efforts – both diplomatic and military. So far, the Ukrainians have not blinked – as both Zelensky’s and society’s reaction to the mounting challenges indicate
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Editor: The final paragraph of Mykola Riabchuk essay is a daming repudiation of ‘Western Values’! Is there a possible cutural, political affinity between Mykola Riabchuk and Aleksandr Dugin?
“The Globalists are the Racists:” Russian Analyst Aleksandr Dugin on the Loss of Cultural Identities”
Ignorance about Ukraine and the region in general is something that Trump shares with most international politicians and intellectuals educated in the framework of Russian ‘imperial knowledge’, which is normalized in both international academia and popular culture. A much bigger problem, however, is Trump’s mindset, which has little to do with rule of law and liberal democracy and a lot with the realpolitik favoured by dictators confident that might makes right, and that international politics is primarily about accumulation of power and wealth. Ignorance can be enlightened and mitigated, but cynical authoritarianism is very unlikely to change. This means that moralistic discussions with Trump and his lieutenants will not help Volodymyr Zelensky and his European partners. Instead, they must speak from a position of strength. This is perhaps the only point on which they fully agree with the American president.
Political Observer.
Oct 02, 2025
Editor: Jonathan Turley besides aspiring to be America’s Lawyer, now dons the vestments of a latter day Cotton Mather! These paragraphs are indicative of moral/political conformity adopted by the Zionist Cadre, and it’s Fellow Travalers, like the doe–eyed Bill Ackman? These paragraphs are indicative of the ever evolving political paranoia against dissent, of any and every kind, where ever it may manifest itself ! The political chatter of Jonathan Turley is another attempt to silent those dissidents as anathema to respectable bourgeois discourse!
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Shapiro was planning to speak on the anniversary of the Hamas massacre in Israel. He was scheduled to speak on October 7 after the law school raised prior objections. The Federalist Society yielded to some demands, but the school then went ahead and cancelled the event anyway, according to FIRE and other sources.Even after the Charlie Kirk assassination, events were held with a large variety of speakers without the necessity of cancelation. I have had seven speeches scheduled after the assassination, including one just days after the tragedy. Not a single event was changed or delayed.
NYU Law School’s director of institutional programming and governance, Penelope Fernandes, wrote to student organizers to change the date “for security reasons, and because we anticipate an increased likelihood of demonstrations and protests connected to the anniversary of the October 7, 2023, incidents in Gaza.”
First and foremost, I would not describe the murdering, raping, and kidnapping of innocent people as just a number of “incidents in Gaza.” That is like calling 9-11 an “incident in Manhattan.”The date change is also a curious request. The anniversary is the reason for the event, as people gather to explore the implications of this tragedy for both the Israelis and Gazans. It is akin to asking groups to reschedule an event on the anniversary of 9/11 for 10/11 or 12/11.
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The Very History of Zionism is drenched in the blood of Palestinians, no commentary by Jonathan Turley, can erase the facts of History, nor the fact of the continuing Gaza Genocide!
Political Dissident.
Oct 01, 2025
Reader I can’t quite break my habit of critiquing Ganesh… Yet I am unable to break the ban, that FT has imposed upon me, to be again a regular subscriber to The Financial Times!
Political Observer etc…..
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