David P. Goldman

Europe’s religious leaders”including the Vatican, the Swiss Catholic bishops, and the Conference of European Rabbis”have condemned the ban on minaret construction imposed by a nearly three-to-two majority in a referendum of Swiss voters… . . Continue Reading »

Sad that the dumbest thing I’ve read in the New York Times for years came from the blog of Ross Douthat, the Catholic conservative voice at the Gray Lady:Maybe the encounter with a post-Christian Europe will supply the Islam of recent immigrants with the cultural vigor that’s been . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Asia Times Online I posted a “Spengler” piece dissecting the Friday unemployment report. I hate to bother with such things, but someone has to do it.Here is a Top 10 of reasons to scrooge the BLS report:10. ... nearly 300,000 people disappeared from the labor force, yet the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Jerusalem-based quarterly Azure (Techelet in Hebrew) has the unique virtue of appearing simultaneously in Hebrew and English. I have been a steady reader since its inception and strongly recommend it. In the Autumn 2009 issue, Azure’s new editor-in-chief Assav Sagiv writes vividly about . . . . Continue Reading »

I will be traveling all this week and will have limited access to . . . . Continue Reading »

Asia Times Online this morning carries my report from the Halifax International Security Forum, sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Two peculiar charadteristics of the Obama administration’s foreign policy made the event a strange parade. The first is that Obama runs . . . . Continue Reading »

A Palestrina mass was sung t St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome this evening, reflecting Pope Benedict XVI’s longstanding efforts to bring polyphony back into the liturgy, reports Sandro Magister in his authoritative chiesa.com website. Benedict has profound insights into sacred music and its . . . . Continue Reading »

...discussing Bernanke, gold and  the . . . . Continue Reading »

Charles Krauthammer was trained as a psychiatrist. I often took issue with his foreign policy reading during the Bush administration. But his column on medicalizing mass murder really nails it. Just in case you missed it: a classic.What a surprise - that someone who shouts “Allahu akbar” . . . . Continue Reading »

// From my "Spengler" essay this morning at Asia Times Online:// ]]>// Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) wrote tragedies about Europe's wars of religion that serve as Europe's epitaph. "History brought forth a great moment," the German poet, philosopher, historian and playwright wrote of the French . . . . Continue Reading »