Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 25,2008

More on statelessness, Geneva, etc

In addition to the comments on my original post, there’s an interesting discussion brewing over at Upturned Earth; Matt Thompson dissents here and the comments are worth reading.

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 24,2008

Statelessness and Humanity

Over at John Schwenkler’s joint, J.L. Wall addresses the problem of the Geneva Conventions as they apply to enemy combatants. John and I went back and forth on this earlier...

By David Donadio • Nov 24,2008

Scowcroft and Brzezinski to Obama: put this dress on, and jump through these hoops

Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski advise Barack Obama to reinvigorate the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. I agree with their analysis, and in principle with their prescriptions, but what good does it...

By David Polansky • Nov 24,2008

Let’s just dust this one off, shall we?

Following up on Donadio’s post, that oped follows an all-too-common model: take a piece you or someone else (in this case, Brzezinski) has written a number of times before. Insert...

By Rachel Jurado • Nov 24,2008

YouPanopticon

As the token humanities grad student here, I feel it’s my duty to post the link to a video of this conversation between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky… then again,...

By AF Editors • Nov 23,2008

Stroke of the Pen

Bush’s penchant for expanding executive power shows that he misunderstood the most important aspect of governmental institutions: They should be one-size-fits all. Officeholders set precedents that will be utilized not...