Commentary - America's Future

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.

By David Donadio • Jan 23,2009

Ha

Television…

By David Donadio • Jan 23,2009

Only in America could a man like this even find work

Roland Martin is right that Barack Obama is an inspiration, for showing the world what a smart, eloquent black man can accomplish in America. But then there’s the irony of...

By AF Editors • Jan 23,2009

A guest post from Marty Peretz

So our new president has tapped George Mitchell as Middle East envoy. The president is a good man. Mitchell too. But do either of them really believe this will amount...

By David Donadio • Jan 23,2009

Poorly named towns

Some might say her beat is sophomoric, but I wouldn’t mind having Sarah Lyall’s job. Check out her latest in the Times: In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone...