David P. Goldman

@KobeissiLetter Good. He can head our Board.

BREAKING: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would buy manufacturing companies and use AI to automate them, per WSJ.

With determined leadership, nothing is impossible. 🇺🇸

Armies do not fight for abstractions. Armies fight for a people. Armies fight for a nation. Armies fight for a way of life and that is what we are defending.

On Day One, @POTUS withdrew from the one-sided Paris Climate Agreement which raises prices, hinders economic growth, and weakens our national security. The U.S. will no longer be a part of international agreements and initiatives that undermine our national interests. Promises Made, Promises Kept!

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we reaffirm our commitment to countering antisemitism, defending historic truth, and to upholding the immortal words never again.

🕯️ Today we remember the victims of the Holocaust. In Hungary, this tragedy has names and faces, with so many families torn apart. Remembering is not about the past alone. At a time when antisemitism is once again on the rise across Europe, it is our duty to ensure that such evil is never allowed to return.

Der Jahrestag der Befreiung des Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz-Birkenau ist ein Anlass zum Innehalten – zum Gedenken an die vielen Millionen Menschen, die der verbrecherischen Gewaltherrschaft der Nationalsozialisten zum Opfer fielen. Auschwitz steht für ein beispielloses Menschheitsverbrechen, das im Namen Deutschlands begangen wurde: den industriellen Massenmord an den Juden Europas. Dieser Schrecken darf auch nach 81 Jahren nicht verblassen. Das Unrecht und das millionenfache Leid dürfen nie in Vergessenheit geraten.

Anne Frank’s story has repeatedly been perversely looted by activists — during 2020, there was a discourse on here about whether Anne was a “Karen.”

A central preoccupation of the “censorship-industrial complex” (NGOs + their govt principals) was the creation of a de facto DSA / OSA regime in the United States. Compare, eg, DSA “trusted flagger” structure with the prioritized “content moderation” channels seen in Murthy.

The United States cares greatly about the people of Europe and the bonds we share as a civilization. But we want strong allies, not seriously weakened ones. Europe must depart from the culture they've created over the last ten years. Otherwise, they will destroy themselves.

🚨JD VANCE JUST OBLITERATED GLOBALISM — AND EXPOSED HOW SMALL OUR POLITICIANS REALLY ARE While Britain is led by careerists who can’t think beyond slogans, JD Vance just dismantled the entire intellectual foundation of globalisation — calmly, methodically, and devastatingly. He explained what our so-called leaders never understood: You cannot separate making things from designing things. When you offshore manufacturing, you don’t just lose jobs — you lose knowledge, skills, innovation, and eventually sovereignty. The countries that make things learn how to design them. They absorb the expertise. They build the ecosystems. They overtake you. And that’s exactly what happened. Globalisation didn’t lift the West — it hollowed it out. Then Vance delivered the knockout blow: Cheap labour isn’t progress. It’s a drug. A shortcut that replaces innovation with dependency. Instead of building better systems, Western elites imported cheaper workers. Instead of investing in productivity, they chased lower wages. Instead of strengthening nations, they weakened them. The result? • Stagnant productivity • Collapsing industries • Hollowed communities • Lost national purpose And this isn’t theory — it’s visible everywhere. From the rust belts of America to the broken towns of Britain to the productivity collapse across Europe. This is the level of thinking real leadership requires. Not soundbites. Not Davos slogans. Not “learn to code”. But first-principles understanding of power, labour, innovation, and national interest. Listening to JD Vance speak makes one thing painfully clear: Our political class isn’t just corrupt. It’s intellectually bankrupt. And that — more than anything — is why the West has been losing.

Lots of factors including intangible “animal spirits” drive crime, but policy levers still matter — about in the way you’d expect.

I’m traveling in Europe on a diplomatic passport, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to say a few things ordinary Europeans (and Brits) can’t.

On December 25, 1983, Ronald and Nancy Reagan quietly broke presidential protocol in the most beautiful way imaginable. Before dawn, at 6 a.m., they slipped out of the White House without fanfare, drove themselves to a small suburban Virginia nursing home, and spent the morning serving breakfast to elderly residents who had no family to visit them on Christmas Day. Nancy stood at the griddle flipping pancakes, while Ronnie sat beside a 90-year-old woman with dementia who kept calling him “son.” He never corrected her. He simply held her hand and whispered, “I’m here, Mama. I’m here.” The Secret Service was frantic—there was no full security detail, no advance planning, no press. This wasn’t a staged moment or a political gesture. It began because Nancy had read a letter from a nursing home administrator describing the crushing loneliness many residents felt during the holidays. She turned to Ronnie and said, “We have to do something. These could be our parents.” What few people knew at the time was that this wasn’t a one-day act of kindness. It became a private tradition the Reagans repeated every Christmas throughout all eight years of the presidency. Always in secret. Always without cameras. Nancy baked cookies herself the night before. Ronnie brought letters from soldiers overseas and read them aloud to veterans whose eyes could no longer manage the words. One Christmas, Reagan spent forty-five minutes sitting beside a dying Korean War veteran, holding his hand and praying quietly so he wouldn’t have to leave this world alone. When Nancy found them, Ronnie was crying. “No hero,” he told her, “should die without someone telling them thank you.” These stories only surfaced years later, shared by nursing home staff after Reagan’s death. They endure because they reveal something rare and enduring—that the most meaningful acts of love and service are often the ones no one sees, done not for recognition or applause, but simply because the heart knows it must show up.

Good thread on this misguided proposal.

“We must stop censorship and suppression of information. The State Department’s efforts to combat malign propaganda have expanded and fundamentally changed since the Cold War era and we must reprioritize truth. The State Department I lead will support and defend Americans’ rights to free speech, terminating any programs that in any way lead to censoring the American people.  While we will combat genuine enemy propaganda, we will do so only with the fundamental truth that America is a great and just country whose people are generous and whose leaders now prioritize Americans’ core interests while respecting the rights and interests of other nations.”- Secretary Rubio. Watch to learn more.

I don’t know if it’s undignified for a public official to dunk on Nazis. Probably I won’t do it all the time. But in a society where we have the power to say what we want, it feels important to say what’s true.

Unlike historical Nazis, antisemites in your online replies don’t run a totalitarian war machine, so they don’t pose an existential threat to Jews or any other group. But the kind of politics that blames shadowy anthropomorphized forces (quite often “the Jews”) for things, instead of working to solve them, is toxic. It’s for bitter losers; it encourages self-victimization and magical thinking; it is, indeed, “dumb trash.”

VDH health update: From VDH to us: Here is the update. It been two weeks since they removed a large nonsmokers, genetically caused cancerous mucinous adenoma carcinoma of 7 cm along with the entire lower right lobe. The 4 hr operation went fine, but in the ICU an artery and two veins ruptured or something leading to a massive bleed, no one knows what happened during the first operation? so they had to go back in the OR reopen the lung, find the bleeding, and had 5 transfusions. That was an another 4 hrs under anesthesia.  So I was in 8 days in hospital rather than 4, and developed from the trauma and transfusions a bad anemia and AFIB (never had either  before). So at home now, sort of wiped out, and wasted given the heavy meds to stop the AFIB and really low red blood counts. And the long time under.  I say that only because it will likely take months rather than weeks as anticipated before the aneurisms. ... Best Victor

Germany infamously retains very few Jews, yet imported barbarian rapist hordes (as an American, I’m allowed to call them that) under Merkel. Even today, Germany suppresses political opposition who point this out. You guys will say this is because of “Jewish” NGO tentacles or whine that Hitler (who destroyed his country) is treated too harshly by history. You will say this because you’re dumb trash who prefer to promote conspiracy theories rather than ascribe Germans (or anyone else) agency over their countries’ future.