David Adesnik - America's Future

By David Adesnik • Apr 20,2009

Naive questions about healthcare reform

My knowledge of our healthcare system is basically limited to my own experience as a patient. The actual health care has been quite good. But my experience with health insurance...

By David Adesnik • 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 David Adesnik • 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 David Adesnik • Apr 03,2009

What’s a nice girl like you doing in a neocon place like this?

The Foreign Policy Initiative held its first public event on Tuesday, a conference entitled Afghanistan: Planning for Success. The FPI board of directors consists of Bob Kagan, Bill Kristol and...

By David Adesnik • Apr 01,2009

Bloggingheads TV: better than watching Don Draper, not as good as watching Omar

For those with any interest in Af-Pak, I highly recommend watching this dialog between Chris Brose and Spencer Ackerman (by the way, I find the hardass pose of that site’s...

By David Adesnik • 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...

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