Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Mar 02,2009

Keith Gessen’s New York: The Blog-Literary Complex

Is the New York literary scene dying? Is it in the midst of gasping its last erudite breath? It certainly wouldn’t be ridiculous to think so; the disappearance of bookstores,...

By David Polansky • Mar 02,2009

Steele vs. Limbaugh

NPR calls the Steele-Limbaugh tiff a battle for the future of the Republican party . In which case, I’m reminded of Henry Kissinger’s line on the Iran-Iraq war: Too bad...

By David Donadio • Mar 02,2009

Upside down in Afghanistan

Check out the latest twist in the Afghanistan war, as reported by The Australian. In a strategic inversion, it seems the Americans have become the foreign invaders and occupiers, and...

By David Adesnik • Mar 01,2009

Black US Presidents Before Obama

A brilliant study of ficitional black presidents by Sean Higgins, courtesy of Doublethink Online. If Eric Holder read this article before giving his “cowardice” speech, he might have saved himself...

By David Polansky • Mar 01,2009

The truth about Mike Tyson

The Onion has the scoop . From the days when Nintendo didn’t hesitate to make unabashedly racist video games.

By David Adesnik • Mar 01,2009

America: Fascist and socialist!

Ron Paul at CPAC: “We now have moved a major step in the direction of socialism,” Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) said Friday, adding: “We are close to a fascist system...