Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Apr 27,2009

All “torture” all the time at Conventional Folly

My understanding of torture is that it’s so terrible that following an order to carry it out is unconscionable and punishable by law. Yet we seem to have reached a...

By Sonny Bunch • Apr 27,2009

More torture blogging

Jim Manzi asks an awfully provocative question — even more so if you actually read his post (which many of his commenters seemed not to have). Every time I try...

By N.P. Thompson • Apr 26,2009

Defending the SATs

The cover story of this week’s Weekly Standard is a fantastic piece by Andrew Ferguson on the evolution of the SAT and how reactions to it (and its precusors) reflect...

By Sonny Bunch • Apr 23,2009

Torture: Did releasing the memos hurt our national security?

Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA, says ‘yes’. I think his argument is on very weak ground. Here’s Hayden on Fox this past Sunday: [CHRIS] WALLACE: And you...

By Sonny Bunch • Apr 23,2009

An idle thought…

What if Barack Obama has been all “forgive and forget” on enhanced interrogations because he knew what the CIA and others were doing all along? He was, after all, on...

By David Adesnik • Apr 23,2009

Hayden on Waterboarding

Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA, walked a fine line this past Sunday on the question of whether waterboarding is torture. His message seemed to be, “I know...