Commentary - America's Future

By David Polansky • Mar 03,2009

Machiavelli on our financial elites

…one sees that great men are always the same in every fortune; and if it varies — now by exalting them, now by crushing them — they do not vary...

By David Adesnik • Mar 03,2009

A letter from Sean Hannity

Fundraising letters are always great material for blog posts. Often because they say the craziest things to get you riled up and open your wallet. But this one was a...

By David Polansky • Mar 03,2009

Honey, I need to know if this thing we have is bipolar or multipolar

Drawn over to Stephen Walt’s Foreign Policy blog by the latest contretemps over the Freeman appointment, I noticed this previous post entitled "IR theory for lovers: a Valentine’s guide ."...

By David Donadio • Mar 03,2009

How to trivialize everything

Food magazines are scaling back the recipes they’re recommending to more manageable budgets, reports the New York Times, in view of, you know, the excruciating disembowelment of the economy: After...

By David Donadio • Mar 03,2009

Engineering schematics for White House helicopters end up in Iran

Good to know this stuff is being kept under wraps by…well, by the same sorts of folks who keep losing laptops full of millions of Social Security numbers. Thankfully, this...

By Damir Marusic • Mar 02,2009

Mmmmm, warm cockles…

My black elitist heart positively lights up at the prospect of the marginalization of vulgar populism in the Republican party. Frum on Limbaugh: A man who is aggressive and bombastic,...