Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Aug 07,2008

A Time to Kill?

A recent Wall Street Journal dispatch from Afghanistan quoted an Army captain on the sensitive subject of killing. He had, it seems, recently gunned down the Taliban fighter responsible for...

By James Poulos • Aug 07,2008

God Will Not Let The World Be Destroyed

Fear not the Large Hadron Collider. Megan McArdle reports: the production of a large number of Higgs particles in the future could have a backwards-in-time causal effect on the machine...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 07,2008

Brett Favre to the Jets (Updated)

(Update: For the best fan’s eye view analysis of this situation, make sure to bookmark Steve Hayes and Andrew Hayes’s blog, Packer Geeks. Hayes is the number one Packers fan...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 06,2008

The Olympics = a Debacle

Check out this blog post over at ESPN.com about a freelancer assaulted by a group of Chinese citizens: Some of the policemen walked toward me and grabbed me by the...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 06,2008

Open discussion and the modern left, cont.

A few weeks back I posted something about the modern left and its tolerance for open discussion and dissent. I thought of that post when I came across these two...

By James Poulos • Aug 06,2008

Sojourner Untruth? Obama, American

David Brooks seems to be making a curious, and curiously potent, argument about why Obama’s not possessed of a stronger lead — seeing as how he’s amply possessed of a...