David P. Goldman

The horror-film genre is multiplying like one of its own monsters, showing six-fold growth over the past decade—turning what used to be a Hollywood curiosity into a mainstream product. Not only the volume of films but their cruelty has increased, with explicit torture now a screen staple. Why do . . . . Continue Reading »

Asia Times’ premiere South Asia correspondent M.K. Bhadrakumar has the best analysis of Afghan developments that I have seen recently. The key to solving the problem is to get India involved. Pakistan, understandably, does not like this, which is not surprising, because Pakistan’s . . . . Continue Reading »

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 »