Author: AF Editors

By Sep 18,2006

The Pope’s call to reason

I’m getting a feeling of déjà vu over the recent protests in the Muslim community over remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI last Tuesday in Germany. Once again, like with the Danish cartoons a...

By Sep 11,2006

An inconvenient enemy of the people

The opening shot in a much anticipated Presidential contest might just have been fired in the strangest of places: Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company. The company is currently running a production...

By Sep 04,2006

The age of classic TV

The elevated, novelistic trend we're currently seeing in television -- and first seen in shows like Homicide -- combined with the increasing popularity of DVD box sets, suggests that television...

By Aug 27,2006

Irish lullabies

How folk Irish ditties instill a healthy distrust of authority and government power in the old and the young.

By Aug 20,2006

Cooler heads on global warming

There’s a storm brewing over global warming–or, more accurately, storms aren’t brewing, and that’s causing a storm in itself. People preaching the dangers of global warming predicted that warmer air...

By Aug 06,2006

Beware: The Government Wants to Help

Millions of Americans have lost billions of dollars in recent weeks as the stock market bubble popped and corporate accounting fraud came to the forefront. The media blame capitalism. In...