Author: David Adesnik
By David Adesnik • Mar 16,2009

Thank you, New York Times

I’ve got to give credit where credit is due. Yesterday’s front-page story about Obama’s health care plans is a remarkable vindication of what McCain was saying about healthcare last fall....

By David Adesnik • Mar 16,2009

Thank you, David Gregory

Yes, this is the second post in a row to pick on Christina Romer, head of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. But this exchange was too good to pass...

By David Adesnik • Mar 07,2009

Does democracy promotion matter?

I’m posting in San Francisco right now, after spending the past couple of days at a Stanford conference on democratic transitions and the role that international actors play in supporting...

By David Adesnik • Mar 07,2009

Profound philosophical questions

If God is good, why does evil exist? Do men have free will, or are our actions predetermined? Above all, why don’t hotels ever put little tubes of toothpaste in...