Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part I

The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal profiled John Paulson, whose firm made $15 billion by systematically betting against the value of American homes. Paulson himself took home $4...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

A liberal dollop of irony

From the lead column in last week’s New Yorker: The market for news is narrowing down to people who need an ideological fix. Of course, that comment was directed at...

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...