In a new “Spengler” essay at Asia Times online today, I argue that the gold price is an option on the decline of American power. In purely economic terms, gold is a very poor reserve asset compared to even a rather wobbly and ill-managed currency. Only if international relations break . . . . Continue Reading »
The Boston Globe notes an interesting finding:One of the classic stereotypes about women is that they’re acutely terrified by snakes and spiders. Indeed, it has been found that women are four times more likely to suffer from these phobias, but there is ostensibly no gender difference for phobias . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest Chronicles of Higher Education , Mark Lilla explains that conservatism is a tradition, not a pathology: This month the University of California at Berkeley opened a Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements. The center is housed in the Institute for the Study of Social . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama’s selling skills are questionable. He says things that aren’t true and acts as if we won’t be able to figure that out. A minor case in point: On 60 Minutes tonight, he says that he will “own” Obamacare and be held politically accountable if . . . . Continue Reading »
A meme is taking hold on the left that opponents of President Obama can’t accept a black president. But that’s baloney that has turned moldy. President Obama is being treated just like every other president has been by his (or someday, her) political opponents—very . . . . Continue Reading »
The gall of President Obama: He has played hide the ball on health care rationing, the funding of abortion under the public plan, and pretended that cutting fat and efficiencies can pay for the more than $1 trillion price tag for the the bill. He has claimed to support conscience clauses as he guts . . . . Continue Reading »
My review of Yuval Levin’s excellent and thought-provoking book, Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy , is up now at First Principles. Yuval’s closing exhortation to conservatives, to write more clearly, probingly, and persuasively about human dignity, is problematic, . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK continues to provide us with a vivid and terrifying education about the dangers of health care rationing. The UK”s central planners have urged that doctors make no efforts to save prematurely born babies under 22 weeks. This don’t treat decree (because that is what . . . . Continue Reading »
So, the WSJ has a major debate feature on the role of religion in society in its Weekend Journal. For the atheists, we have Richard Dawkins. No big surprise there. For the theists we have . . . Alister McGrath? No. Rick Warren? No. Francis Beckwith? No. J.P. . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week Jimmy Carter wrote another breathtakingly silly op-ed titled “ The Elder’s View of the Middle East .” As Elliot Abrams summarized it in an response titled, ” What Carter Missed in the Middle East .” The former President “described a rapacious Israel facing . . . . Continue Reading »
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