Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Aug 20,2009

Afghanistan: The fundamentals of counterinsurgency

This is a response to Jazz’s post from earlier today. Like Jazz, I am disheartened by the carnage in Afghanistan and the lack of progress we’ve made over the past...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 20,2009

The department of double standards, ctd

Megan McArdle has a nice roundup of Reason’s latest string of posts about the hypocrisy of the left. And John McCormack points to an excellent post rounding up the double...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 20,2009

Just tell your kids no

There’s a relatively absurd New York Times piece about a bunch of whiny parents who can’t control their whiny kids (wonder where they get it from) when the ice cream...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 20,2009

Half-Life with real guns? Awesome! Lack of awareness of irony? Even awesomer!

Via Peter Suderman, I saw this awesome video where a bunch of science/gaming geeks got together and rigged up a system where they could play Half-Life with a real gun....

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 19,2009

Why doesn’t FIFA do anything?

(Warning: soccer post coming up.) The Sports Guy has a pretty great column about the U.S. team’s latest loss to Mexico in Mexico City. You should give it a read....

By AF Editors • Aug 18,2009

Department of esoteric allusions

From a New Yorker profile of Elon Musk, CEO of electric carmaker Tesla: Although more than a quarter of Tesla’s employers come from the Big Three, and although the company...