Author: David Adesnik

By Apr 09,2009

Israel must stop building settlements

That is certainly the conventional wisdom. Elliott Abrams dissents. For him, anti-settlement advocacy is a distraction. Abrams writes that the expansion of the Israeli settler population basically entails population growth...

By Apr 08,2009

Thomas Hobbes on Bill Clinton

“For it is a great misfortune to a people, to come under the government of such a one, as knows not how to govern himself.” Thomas Hobbes, “Discourse upon the...

By Mar 30,2009

The politics of intelligence

It’s the old nature vs. nurture debate. Is intelligence genetic, or does your upbringing matter? Yesterday, the Times reviewed a new book that makes the case for nurture. This comment...