Commentary - America's Future

By David Polansky • Mar 16,2009

John Rawls, invading my personal space

Apropos nothing, is there any way to read John Rawls such that he isn’t advocating soft tyranny? Instead of a boot stamping on a human face, it’s a hug that...

By David Adesnik • Mar 16,2009

My classmate on the Daily Show

Seriously. My friend Craig Mullaney, whom I met in grad school almost ten years ago, is the author of a new book about his experiences at West Point, Oxford and...

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 16,2009

A Republican who sincerely wants Obama not to fail

Dr. Christina Romer is the chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Her comments yesterday morning on Meet the Press left me rather unsettled about the administration’s readiness to...

By Noelle Daly • Mar 16,2009

Music and Meritocracy

At about the same time that news of the Rod Blagojevich scandal broke in Illinois, a similar scandal of sorts was playing out in the rarified world of classical music....