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By AF Editors • Apr 19,2010

Who needs the Constitution? Seriously.

In honor of my road trip to Philadelphia this weekend, I downloaded the audiobook version of Gordon S. Wood’s Empire of Liberty, a history of the United States from 1789...

By AF Editors • Apr 05,2010

Fictional Vietnams

Yesterday, the NY Times Book Review devoted its cover to a pair of novels about the war in Vietnam. One dates back to the war itself: Karl Marlantes’s first novel,...

By AF Editors • Mar 31,2010

A Modern Passover Tradition

If you’re Jewish like me, you spent the past two nights partying at the SEDA CLUB!

By AF Editors • Mar 23,2010

Professional counterinsurgency blogging

If you want to hear from some of the smartest men and women on the front lines in Afghanistan and around the globe, visit the official blog of the Army...

By Sonny Bunch • Mar 19,2010

This is the end / My only friend, the end

Apologies to The Doors, but I’ve always loved that line. And now, finally, a time to use it. I have accepted a new job and, as part of the bargain...

By Sonny Bunch • Mar 17,2010

Welfare reform for hipsters

When did Baltimore turn from a haven for drug dealers into a haven for hipsters on food stamps? The two friends weren’t tabulating the cash in their wallets but what...