David P. Goldman

Ross Douthat digs himself in deeper on the matter of Tariq Ramadan. Yesterday I took exception to his appalling comparison between St. Paul and Ramadan, whose terrorist ties prompted the Department of Homeland security to refuse him a visa to take up a faculty appointment at Notre Dame. He had . . . . Continue Reading »

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 »

The destinies of the aging but affluent people of the West and the young but impoverished people of the Global South are joined”and joined by a very simple economic fact: The old tend to have savings, while the young tend to have energy. To fund their retirements, old people must find young . . . . 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 »