Adam Davidson (born 1970) is an American journalist (no relation to the former-CEO of Trident Royalties Plc, of the same name).

[1] Previously he has covered globalization issues, the Asian tsunami, and the war in Iraq, for which he won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.

[3][4] Davidson worked as an economics columnist for The New York Times Magazine[5] and in 2016 took a position at The New Yorker.

We don’t want so strong a union that mediocrity reigns and it’s impossible to get rid of poor performers.

[14] The episode was linked widely in the blogosphere and remains one of the show's most-downloaded podcasts.