Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Oct 05,2011

A Libertarian Moment?

The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America By Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch PublicAffairs, 288 pp., $25.99 For budding libertarians, certain issues of...

By Rob Bluey • Oct 05,2011

The New Watchdogs

The New Watchdogs by Rob Bluey Bill Osmulski stepped outside his office into a boisterous crowd of protesters in Madison, Wisconsin, earlier this year and spotted a group of doctors...

By AF Editors • Oct 05,2011

Diplomats, Demagogues and Innocents Abroad

Conservatives should resist pressure from within to retreat from world affairs and embrace their diplomatic heritage.

By AF Editors • Sep 27,2011

Word of the Day

September 27, 2011 WORD OF THE DAY excrescence (n) (ik-skres-uhns) 1. an abnormal outgrowth, usually harmless, on an animal or vegetable body 2. a normal outgrowth, as hair or horns...

By AF Editors • Sep 21,2011

Dr. Ron Paul: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Embrace the (Iranian) Bomb Policy Debate

Conservative vs. Libertarian Foreign Policy Debate Join AF Pittsburgh this November as we debate U.S. foreign policy in the middle east. What should be America’s strategy in the Middle East?...

By AF Editors • Sep 14,2011

Men at Arms

As the “mancession” continues to displace the traditional male breadwinner and prolong young mens’ extended adolescence, the state of American manliness is much in debate. A clash between two titans...