Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Jan 26,2009

Your Monday morning reading

Slate finally publishes something worthwhile in Ron Rosenbaum’s excoriation of my least favorite pop musician ever. The always-interesting John Derbyshire has a thoughtful review of a new book on art...

By David Donadio • Jan 25,2009

Thanks for the free lunch, here it is again after digestion

Michael Newman savages my former employer over a recent counterterrorism conference. I have no idea how many of the panel discussions Newman attended, and many of them were, after all,...

By David Donadio • Jan 25,2009

The end of monetary policy and the impending death of the dollar

Brendan Conway sends this positively horrifying St. Louis Fed graph of the U.S. monetary base. Where’s the Cato Institute when you need it? How can the dollar not crater as...

By David Donadio • Jan 24,2009

Or we could just concentrate our efforts on the terrorists

Matt Levitt and a colleague write in The New Republic that counternarcotics is essential to counterterrorism. In the short term, that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, from...

By AF Editors • Jan 23,2009

Derek Zoolander's thoughts

Apropos this video: The other day, I was thinking about volunteering to help teach underprivileged children to learn how to read. And just thinking about it was one of the...

By AF Editors • Jan 23,2009

Shorter version of this Douthat post

Be like David Lynch. Not Joel Surnow.