Author: CBD

Unionism in America is schizophrenic. The reality of the collective bargaining scheme is that any strike will decrease total compensation very quickly, so it is incumbent upon the union hierarchy to settle quickly. But the assumption of a quick settlement shrinks the power of the strike. Unlike Europe, where strikes are built into the process,…

Israel has changed the paradigm; the quaint but naive idea that there can be some sort of cold peace with terrorist organizations has fallen to “Events, My Dear Boy, Events,” as Harold Macmillan put it. The robust response to Hezbollah has sent a clear signal to its benefactors in Tehran, and that signal is: “We…

It’s axiomatic that government, without any market pressures to improve or even succeed, will do most things at least worse than, and often incredibly badly compared to the private sector. The list is long. In fact, the list of things that government does better than market-influence organizations has…um…not a single entry. Of course the argument…

Ever since the Six-Day War, Israel has diddled and vacillated and tried to please the elites in the West (primarily America) while simultaneously trying to protect its citizens from the existential threat of Islam. Land for peace…political autonomy…hundreds of thousands of jobs for the West Bank and Gaza Arabs within Israel itself…carefully titrated responses to…

The Western elites and the United Nations and the various NGOs that ululate with rage every time Israel kills a pack of terrorists meeting in a school or a mosque or an apartment building (always conveniently filled with “mostly women and children”) always neglect some perspective. These people are murderers, and their targets are us….

Iran has a seat at the United Nations. That, in and of itself is a damning indictment of the entire sh*tshow on the East River. But it gets worse; Iran also is a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. This is a country that has roving squads of lunatics, beating women who have…

American Theater is in the doldrums. Sure, if you want to spend $200 you can go see one of 87 cookie-cutter musicals, complete with forgettable music. Or several comedies, which aren’t all that funny, or even a few serious plays, at least one of which will be guaranteed to set your teeth on edge! Why?…

The headline says it all, but the current sleaze in the news — The Cheney Clan — is a perfect example of how political expediency and plain old graft easily subsumes the mushy political philosophy of many of the people who have claimed the mantle of ‘elite” in our government. Dick Cheney, or “Judas Iscariot,”…

Today’s art portrayed one of the intellectual titans of the 18th century. It’s hard to find a better example of the explosion of intellectualism in Europe than Antoine Lavoisier. He was a polymath, but he is best known for his tremendous advances in chemistry, including the revolutionary concept that matter is neither created nor destroyed….

The vitriol spewed by the world media on Israel and its legitimate defensive war against Hamas is unsurprising, but the pressure placed on Israel by the West’s governments is unfathomable…unless one assumes that they want Israel to lose. The false equivalence that was created soon after the atrocities of October 7th is typical of the…