Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Jan 20,2009

Holly Golightly vs Carrie Bradshaw

After a recent viewing of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, it was pointed out to me what an influence it must have had on Sex and the City. On thinking it over,...

By David Donadio • Jan 20,2009

More change between Bush's terms than between Bush and Obama?

In an eloquent piece in the latest issue of Foreign Policy, Chris Brose makes the best case yet that George W. Bush laid the foundations of a solid foreign policy...

By David Donadio • Jan 20,2009

Obama reshuffles Middle East posts?

Jill Biden’s hilarious gaffe on Oprah, that her husband Joe was initially offered his choice of the Secretary of State spot or the vice presidency in an Obama administration, brings...

By AF Editors • Jan 20,2009

Inauguration Day Minus One

In several hours, I head downtown toward the general vicinity of the Inauguration. I don’t have a ticket, but I figure with the size of the crowd expected, I’ll still...

By AF Editors • Jan 20,2009

My inaugural post

Hello. What Conventional Folly really needed was a third blogger named David, so here I am. Now let me tell you a bit a where I was before. From April...

By AF Editors • Jan 19,2009

The great Noah Baumbach

He’s one of my favorite filmmakers working today, but this New Yorker piece had me pissing myself.