David P. Goldman

Damian Thompson at the Daily Telegraph has this gem, apropos of the Obamanable speech:The BBC Trust has dismissed a complaint about an episode of Bonekickers, a BBC One drama series about a team of archaeologists, that involved a fundamentalist Christian beheading a Muslim (as so often . . . . Continue Reading »

Of many strange moments in President Obama’s Cairo speech, perhaps the strangest is the conclusion:The Holy Quran tells us, Mankind, we have created you male and a female. And we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.The Talmud tells us, The whole of the Torah . . . . Continue Reading »

Jody Bottum calls my attention to an astonishing post by attorney Kenneth Anderson over at the Volokh Conspiracy. After the Obama administration shredded bondholder rights in the Chrysler and General Motors bankruptcies, the rule of law in the United States now is on par with China’s. Anderson . . . . Continue Reading »

I really have to stop reading the newspapers.Particularly on Sunday mornings, I feel like I wandered into a science fiction movie in which everyone but me is a space alien who took over a human body. The pod people are everywhere. They smile at me, they chat affably, they say “Good . . . . Continue Reading »

There are only two possible strategies for Jewish survival in a gentile world. One is to be tolerated. The other is to be indispensable. The first strategy hopes that if every minority is tolerated, then perhaps even the Jews, the minority with the longest history of persecution, might also be . . . . Continue Reading »

“Yes, we can,” said Obama. “No, you can’t,” said the bond market. “You can’t borrow $1.8 trillion a year, subsidize the mortgage market, finance the asset-backed securities market, and do all these other things, not at a 3% yield for the 10-year . . . . Continue Reading »

PoMoCon, just across the toolbar, picked up on David Brooks’ paean to lack of imagination in the corporate world on May 21, aptly noting that it was a sequel to his earlier claim that anyone could be Mozart by practicing enough. I had excoriated Brooks for bait-and-switch, that is, claiming . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the enormous diggers at work on the Second Avenue Subway must have toppled over, I dreamed to myself when the blast woke me up a little after 3 a.m., and went right back to sleep. I didn’t guess that something was wrong until 7, when I arose to walk the dog. The dog had disappeared. She . . . . Continue Reading »

The Obama administration’s hopes for a diplomatic settlement in which Iran would give up nuclear weapons in return for a greater regional role, including a sphere of influence of sorts in Iraq and a presence in Afghanistan, seem to be flaking apart. A New York Times op-ed this morning by . . . . Continue Reading »

Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic’s national correspondent, tries hard to summon up enough liberal outrage to challenge the conclusion of Israeli historian Benny Morris that a two-state solution is as unrealistic as the overtly utopian one-state solution to the Palestinian problem. Reviewing . . . . Continue Reading »