Commentary - America's Future

By James Poulos • Aug 19,2008

Another Horrible Non-Argument on Russia

Noam Scheiber, The Stump: Obama’s strongest response to the Russia situtation may be the same one he’s used in other foreign policy contexts: By focusing on Iraq, we took our...

By James Poulos • Aug 19,2008

When Private Goes Public

Camille Paglia, I am noticing slightly belatedly, turned in a pitch-perfect expression of the problem with the ‘let sleeping adulterers lie’ meme in post-Clintonian political commentary: As a Democrat who...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 19,2008

Video of the Day

The Film Drunkard posted this awesome animated short. It’s long, but neat. Give it a watch:

By John Schwenkler • Aug 19,2008

Some Like It Raw

We have always had to have “a good reason” for doing away with small operators, and in modern times the good reason has often been sanitation, for which there is...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 18,2008

Two Obama-related notes

In the waking of the massive FUBAR situation in Georgia, Jamie Kirchick points out over at Contentions just why we should try and avoid one-on-one talks with dictators when the...

By AF Editors • Aug 18,2008

Richly rewarded

Set in the muted chaos of New Delhi, where motorized auto-rickshaws, cows, luxury cars and begging urchins mingle in the hot, dusty streets without much incident (though not always without...