Commentary - America's Future

By James Poulos • Jul 28,2008

Someone at Newsweek will feel bad about this

On page 7 of this week’s Newsweek is this little sidebar: “Bob Novak has had better weeks.” The sidebar goes on to mention McCain using him to gin up interest...

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 28,2008

Aid to Africa, aid to D.C.

Rod Dreher has been following the evolution of Irish journalist Kevin Myers’s take on aid to Africa. As Dreher puts it, Kevin Myers’ cold-hearted view, which has the advantage of...

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 28,2008

The commuter wars begin

Things got pretty nasty between a car driver and a group of cyclists last weekend. From Slog: A demonstration turned violent Friday night after a group of cyclists taking part...

By James Poulos • Jul 27,2008

Mbeki: Friend to Africa's O.J.

I’m still trying to determine exactly what to think and say about this, but South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki seems extraordinarily tone deaf to the ugliness going down north of his...

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 25,2008

Politics and The Dark Knight, cont.

Lots more talk about politics and The Dark Knight, sparked largely by this (kind of silly) piece by Andrew Klavan equating Batman with George W. Bush. Klavan’s column does a...

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 25,2008

The X-Files and Step Brothers

Two reviews for you this week: The X-Files: I Want to Believe over at the Times, and Step Brothers over at the Standard. I must admit to being terribly disappointed...