David P. Goldman

Rabbi David Novak, a founding board member of this magazine’s parent foundation, has a fine essay on the Public Square blog today. I added the following comment in response to some of the other kibitzers:I was heartened by Rabbi Novak’s spirited defense of Judaism.He is entirely correct . . . . Continue Reading »

A friend notes the following gem in Gregory Mankiw’s blog:From the Associated Press (with some light editing):Pfuffnick’s Nobel Economics Prize triumph hailed by manyLONDON — The surprise choice of first-year grad student Quintus Pfuffnick for the Nobel Prize in Economics drew . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s a sign that the Palestinians are achieving a mature of political . . . . Continue Reading »

Gold is at a new record, on rumors that the Gulf states will dump the dollar as a pricing unit for oil. I don’t believe that will happen, yet. But if the Keynesian idiocy persists in Washington, it will happen simply because the dollar will be unsustainable.I wrote about gold’s use as a . . . . Continue Reading »

is the title of a new Spengler essay posted this morning at Asia Times Online. Keynesian stimulus was a terrible idea; combine it with nearly free money and you create a positive-feedback loop between the Treasury deficit and the banking system. It’s going to be a long, long three years . . . . Continue Reading »

What isn’t going wrong for our narcissist-in-chief? The economy, Afghanistan, the Middle East, the United Nations (ignore Iran’s deceptive gesture on inspections today).  As Howard Fineman offered in a now-celebrated Newsweek essay,Unless Obama learns to rely less on charm, . . . . Continue Reading »

Time, as Abraham Joshua Heschel never tired of saying, is only the mask of eternity. To God, who remembers and foresees all, memory and foresight are the same; for God to see the future is the same as for him to remember his own plan of salvation.Each year as the Assembly of Israel prepares to stand . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama is looking worse and worse. The combination of a terrible economy and a terrible foreign policy outlook ought to sink him, provided the Republicans can find a competent candidate. Obama never would have been elected in the first place if only John McCain had still been alive. . . . . Continue Reading »

Daniel Pipes, the brilliant and tenacious analyst of Middle East strategy, has just published an important essay, “Peace Process or War Process?” In good Clausewitzian terms, Pipes argues that peace will come to the Middle East only through victory. The Palestinians first must feel . . . . Continue Reading »

Like so many people, I would not be where I am today without Irving Kristol. When people called him the “Godfather of neoconservatism,” they meant the term affectionately. Irving touched the lives of more people in his position as talent-spotter-in-chief and dispenser of seed money . . . . Continue Reading »