Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Feb 01,2009

Obama reaches out to the Muslim world

I may have a slightly more positive reaction than other conservative-types to Obama’s interview with Al-Arabiya. Now, I certainly agree with Charles Krauthammer and others that Obama’s thumbnail history of...

By David Donadio • Jan 31,2009

David Foster Wallace excoriates John Updike

Polansky reminds me what a loss David Foster Wallace was, with a New York Observer review of John Updike’s Toward the End of Time from 1997: I’m guessing that for...

By Damir Marusic • Jan 31,2009

Parallels

Socially conservative Republicans end up visiting prostitutes and/or tapping their feet in airport bathrooms as a means of soliciting homosexual sex much in the same way that redistributionist Democrats seem...

By David Donadio • Jan 31,2009

John Updike grabs your grundle, alliterating all the while

The late John Updike was renowned as a renaissance man. Prolific to the last, he wrote dozens of novels, and all manner of cultural essays. I’m embarrassed to admit that...

By AF Editors • Jan 30,2009

What would Popeye Doyle do?

In an orgy of narco-trafficking cinema, I recently watched The French Connection and the Infernal Affairs trilogy (upon which the inferior The Departed was based). Both films are full of...

By AF Editors • Jan 30,2009

Bill Kristol: Maoist

Not content with being labeled a Trotskyite, Bill Kristol is now aiming for Maoist with a piece in the Weekly Standard entitled, “Let 1,000 Republican Flowers Bloom.” The piece itself...