Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Apr 15,2009

An analogy, derived from personal experience

A Dell laptop running Windows Vista is like the partnership of Gen. William Westmoreland and Secretary Robert McNamara.

By David Polansky • Apr 15,2009

The Moustache speaks

Imagine if Thomas Friedman, overwhelmed by the tabloid travails of such celebrities as Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, wrote the following lines: It is the age of the madwoman. The...

By Sonny Bunch • Apr 15,2009

Winner of the 2009 AF College Blogger Contest (Updated, with links!)

The second annual America’s Future Foundation College Blogger contest has drawn to a close, and the distinguished panel of judges has chosen The Arizona Desert Lamp as the winner. Operated...

By Meghan Keane • Apr 14,2009

The Fashion Weapon

Lisa Ann does not approve of Sarah Palin’s sex appeal. Asked about the Alaska governor’s looks in March, she told the New Haven Advocate: “It’s a distraction from politics. I...

By Sonny Bunch • Apr 14,2009

Adventures in counterintuitivity

Or is it counterintuitiveness? Anyway, here’s a headline from Slate that would be shocking if, well, it wasn’t at Slate: “Was Limp Bizkit Really That Bad? Why the most hated...

By Sonny Bunch • Apr 13,2009

Millionaires are bad people

Will Wilkinson reminds me of a particularly egregious bit of stupidity from Matt Yglesias last week: It’s possible, of course, that Vikram Pandit really does find being a bank executive...