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Precipitating the next collapse
Originally published 3 Dec 2008 in The Jerusalem Post

Focusing on a putative pension crisis distracts our attention from the real serious crisis that a worldwide recession is bound to create here.

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Remaking US foreign policy
Originally published 13 Aug 2008 in The Jerusalem Post

In a new book, a vice president at the Cato Institute promotes a simpleminded, libertarian, isolationist foreign policy for the United States.

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Israel’s No-Win Strategy
Originally published 8 Mar 2008 in The Wall Street Journal

Israeli politicians are preoccupied with political machinations designed to buy support from powerful interest groups by distributing government largesse. This causes not only the factionalization of politics and growing corruption, but consumes time and energy that leadership should use to address life and death issues.

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A year without Milton Friedman
Originally published 21 Nov 2007 in The Jerusalem Post

This man did more good for humanity than any other.

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One war, two fronts
Originally published 10 May 2006 in The Jerusalem Post

	American and Israeli flags on the back of a scooter parked at the Dolphinarium Beach, Tel Aviv. By Adam Khan

9/11 has clarified that America and Israel are the prime target of Islamic fundamentalists who aspire to overthrow Western civilization. But as Bernard Lewis and others have observed, the West is now weaker in defending itself than in the pre-World War II era.

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