David P. Goldman

No personage stands closer to the center of the American foreign policy establishment than the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and it is something of a milestone when the current holder of this office, Richard Haas, writes in the May 12 Financial Times, “Goodbye to Europe as a . . . . Continue Reading »

Jewish leaders remain unpersuaded by chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s mea culpa for “screwed up messaging” about Israel:The Obama administration has “screwed up the messaging” about its support for Israel over the past 14 months, and it will take “more than one month . . . . Continue Reading »

One of theDems’ biggest contributor warns that the Obama administration are “really left leftists.” The Jerusalem Post reports that one of the Democratic party’s largest contributors is “dismayed” at the Obama administration’s policies towards Israel: . . . . Continue Reading »

What happens when the godfather makes you an offer that you can, in fact, refuse? Veteran Israeli politicians expect the Obama administration to give Israel an ultimatum later this year to make peace with the Palestinian Authority … Continue Reading »

Why a hilltop fortress taken by King David three thousand years ago should occasion so much turmoil in world politics is a source of wonder, and wondering about it helps makes sense of politics as they really are, and not as the Enlightenment presented them to us. Today on the Hebrew calendar is the . . . . Continue Reading »

Here are the links to the two segments of the Kudlow Report on which I appeared earlier this . . . . Continue Reading »

The US employment picture is not as rosy as official statistics claim, according to Union Bank of Switzerland economists. In a May 10 note to clients UBS economists wrote: As we suggested in yesterday’s Comments, Friday’s non-farm payroll numbers got swallowed up by the on-going worries . . . . Continue Reading »

Just when we were told that the governments and central banks of the world had put the financial crisis behind us, the governments of Europe found it necessary to commit more than a trillion dollars to support of the financial system … Continue Reading »

Over at Asia Times Online, I posted a new Spengler essay this morning:Memo to heads of state: beware the clever general who turns up at a tough moment, and says “Leave it to me: I can fix it for you.” Two examples come to mind. The great field marshal of the Thirty Years War of . . . . Continue Reading »

George Gilder’s enthusiasm has always been infectious. In his recent book it is feverish. His 1981 bestseller Wealth and Poverty became the most influential tract of the Reagan era because his passion for the possibilities of capitalism inspired readers in a way that deeper texts could not. . . . . Continue Reading »