Commentary - America's Future

By Daniel Kennelly • Sep 16,2008

Obama the Dove?

Andrew Sullivan, responding to Christopher Hitchens’ claim that an Obama presidency will mean “more war, and more bitter and protracted war at that—not less”, says: I can face the idea...

By David Donadio • Sep 16,2008

This just keeps getting better and better

The only way this would make me madder is if I were an Iranian leader. I’d be out in the cold, while Pakistan created the Taliban, built and tested multiple...

By AF Editors • Sep 16,2008

But it worked for Rome! Sort of…

Andrew J. Bacevich has a characteristically smart piece in the new Atlantic Monthly on the largely internal debate over military tactics fought between what he terms the Crusaders and the...

By David Donadio • Sep 16,2008

OPM

Michael Lewitt writes in today’s New York Times that if A.I.G. collapses, life as we know it will come to an end. Money grafs: More promisingly, A.I.G. asked the Federal...

By AF Editors • Sep 16,2008

A 60-Year Old’s Body in a 20-Year Old’s Mind

Elegy is Old School for grown-ups. Based on The Dying Animal, Philip Roth’s 2001 novella about a fictional Columbia University literature professor and his sexual liaisons with a recent student,...

By Damir Marusic • Sep 15,2008

All Eyez on FDIC

Everyone’s a-titter today about Lehman going bankrupt and Merrill being bought by Bank of America. These are not minor events to be sure, but in many ways they don’t directly...