Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Oct 22,2008

Jindal Bad, Obama Good

I really do love Esquire magazine, as I’ve noted at this website before. I love Chuck Klosterman’s column, I love the fashion advice regarding clothes I’ll never be able to...

By AF Editors • Oct 22,2008

Dept. of the more things change, etc.

It seems Russia, Iran and Qatar have expressed interest in forming a gas cartel. The article rightly notes that none of these countries is a major supplier to the US....

By David Donadio • Oct 22,2008

Blaming the powerless

Jacob Weisberg has an amusingly nasty hatchet job in Slate heralding the latest financial crisis and ensuing federal bailout as the death of libertarianism. His last lines are particularly funny...

By Damir Marusic • Oct 22,2008

Why Apple is Great

Just riffing on my previous Apple love post: did you know that Apple doesn’t use focus groups to develop its products? Here’s a great quote from Steve Jobs in Businessweek,...

By Sonny Bunch • Oct 21,2008

New ventures!

Sorry I’ve been posting kind of lightly around here recently; we’ve been trying to get something up and running at my new home. It’s called the Snob Blog, and it’s...

By Daniel Kennelly • Oct 21,2008

Obama and McCain on science (Part I)

Science Debate 2008 has posed 14 questions about science policy to the Obama and McCain’s campaigns. Over the next few days I’ll be attempting to parse the boilerplate in their...