Commentary - America's Future

By Daniel Kennelly • Feb 04,2009

The Taliban as Aliens

I can understand why Daniel Larison is outraged at Ralph Peters’ column arguing that as a mental exercise we ought to think of Taliban as being alien life forms. Given...

By David Polansky • Feb 04,2009

I say, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing wrong

(UPDATE: go read Damir on this first) Over at Shadow Gov’t, my friend Christian Brose has a pair of bracing posts on reshaping our foreign service to more accurately reflect...

By Damir Marusic • Feb 04,2009

Conservatism and Capitalism, Part II III

The Tanenhaus reactions are coming in fast and furious. Here‘s Damon Linker. Here‘s a certain Dr. Russell Arben Fox, someone I’ve never read before, and someone I’ll be adding to...

By David Donadio • Feb 04,2009

Could the New York Times publish this today?

About a week before the presidential election, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates argued that the United States needed to build more nuclear weapons. In a speech at the Carnegie Endowment...

By Kelly Jane Torrance • Feb 04,2009

It’s the End of the (Book) World!

Last week wasn’t a good one for lovers of literature. In the course of just two days, the country lost one of its most notable men of letters—someone who both...

By David Adesnik • Feb 03,2009

Obama and China

Dan Blumenthal makes some interesting points about Obama’s experiences: Mr. Obama is the first American president who came of age as the Cold War was receding. For many in Obama’s...