Author: AF Editors

By AF Editors • Feb 01,2008

Who won the war in Gaza?

Max Boot provides a first-rate after-action report. Boot calls the conflict a highly limited and attenuated victory, to be sure, but one that nevertheless restored Israelis’ self-confidence and Arabs’ fear...

By AF Editors • Jan 22,2008

Bernard-Henri Lévy takes a drag from his cigarette…

Ordinarily, I prefer to go after what someone has actually written; one shouldn’t be held to quite the same standard when speaking. But Bernard-Henri Lévy is truly begging for it,...

By AF Editors • Nov 09,2007

The Ben Franklin Effect

Why asking a favor is better than doing one.

By AF Editors • Nov 09,2007

Once in Cassiopeia

Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters used to mud-wrestle for this type of interview, back when the plum assignment was Mother Teresa or Princess Diana or Jennifer Aniston or President-elect Hillary...

By AF Editors • Sep 10,2007

Breaking the Game

Politics might just be a game, but it's still broken.

By AF Editors • Sep 06,2007

Katie Couric at One Year; Somebody Fire Her

Any discussion that involves the comparison between men and women in the workplace requires some concessions, depending on your audience. If it’s a public discussion, the concession one must make,...