Commentary - America's Future

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...

By AF Editors • Sep 15,2008

David Foster Wallace, RIP

I was deeply shocked and saddened to read that writer David Foster Wallace took his own life this past weekend. The death of such a talent is always a loss,...

By AF Editors • Sep 15,2008

Oil? Hell, we're selling self-congratulation

I haven’t seen the ads that David Donadio references below. But reading about them put me in mind of this.

By David Donadio • Sep 15,2008

But…we never bought houses

Doesn’t mean we won’t still pay for them.

By Daniel Kennelly • Sep 15,2008

A latter-day Genghis Khan

Warmonger? Mass murderer? Evil incarnate? Yes, Hitler was all of these things, but, as Niall Ferguson says, he was also an inept colonialist, and his Reich one of the last,...