Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Mar 11,2009

Jacobs on Freeman

I think Alan Jacobs gets at the heart of the Chas Freeman question in a characteristically smart post over at the Scene: 2) Freeman and his supporters insist that in...

By David Polansky • Mar 11,2009

Japanese still insane; Francisco Franco still dead

Slate reports on the latest Japanese import to the U.S.: a video game entitled (I swear I’m not making this up) RapeLay. Remember that old game, Duck Hunt, that you...

By AF Editors • Mar 11,2009

Raul Castro’s Cuba

HAVANA, CUBA– Whenever it seems as though something momentous and exciting is about to happen here, prepare to be disappointed. In spite of earlier signs of a thaw in U.S.-Cuba...

By David Donadio • Mar 10,2009

No sense of irony at the Weekly Standard

Charles Freeman, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, has been torpedoed as President Obama’s and Admiral Dennis Blair’s choice to head the National Intelligence Council, which prepares national intelligence estimates....

By Sonny Bunch • Mar 10,2009

The difference between radical Islam and the “Christianists”

When you draw a cartoon that features the prophet of Islam, the radicals riot . When you devote a series to showing the seedier side of some Mormon’s lives and...

By David Donadio • Mar 09,2009

The man girdle

First the Bro and the Manssiere, now this wonder of metrosexuality. David Skinner, where are you? (Hat tip: MI)