Commentary - America's Future

By David Polansky • Feb 15,2009

Remember when I said I’d kill you last? I lied

While I have no intention whatsoever of seeing the film Taken, currently in theaters, I understand it follows the travails of a father who is forced to kill a number...

By David Donadio • Feb 14,2009

Eliza Dushku is hot, and critics aren’t watching her show for the plot

Eliza Dushku is hot. That’s pretty much all you’ll get out of this piece, which has the most incomprehensible lede I’ve read all day: Dollhouse (Fox, Fridays at 9 p.m....

By David Polansky • Feb 14,2009

But do they serve coffee?

Eve Fairbanks had one of those irritating pieces made to order for The New Republic house style, whereby the writer condescendingly hovers above her subject without actually telling you anything...

By David Polansky • Feb 13,2009

Another day, another Roger Cohen column

I had a terrible nightmare last night, in which I was Emperor of Persia and I compelled a beautiful woman to regale me with 1001 entertaining tales or forfeit her...

By David Donadio • Feb 13,2009

United States allows Syria to overhaul two civilian airliners, and that’s news?

In her latest Forbes column, Claudia Rosett accuses the Obama administration of selling out on sanctions against Syria. In doing so, she unwittingly provides the best argument against those sanctions....

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 13,2009

Hey, look at that!

This, about the election in Iraq last week, strikes me as absurdly good news: The turnout, 51%, was less than some predicted but importantly it included many Sunnis who had...