Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 02,2009

The banality of “The Banality of Evil.”

Ron Rosenbaum: Adolf Eichmann was, of course, in no way a banal bureaucrat: He just portrayed himself as one while on trial for his life. Eichmann was a vicious and...

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 02,2009

Why should I be surprised?

Hot on the heels of the government takeover of GM — you remember, the car company that was run into the ground by idiot management and overbearing unions? Yeah, that...

By Sonny Bunch • Oct 29,2009

Capitalism: The Worst System Except for all the Others

Last week I reviewed “The Yes Men Fix the World” for the Times, and was a little put off by both the movie’s sanctimonious tone and the facile belief of...

By AF Editors • Oct 29,2009

Friedman’s amnesia

Tom Friedman says don’t send more troops to Afghanistan, because there are no positive trends to build on, like the Anbar Awakening before the surge in Iraq. Yet back in...

By AF Editors • Oct 29,2009

Tom Friedman’s logic

The vote is in. Tom Friedman says no more troops for Afghanistan. Why? When I think back on all the moments of progress in that part of the world —...

By AF Editors • Oct 29,2009

Feingold’s fantasy

On CBS, the senator from Wisconsin said the following: And the idea that the Taliban is the same as al Qaeda, and they’re going to welcome al Qaeda back with...