Commentary - America's Future

By James Poulos • May 15,2008

Appease of Crap

I’m inclined to agree with Sonny’s cut-the-hurt-feelings-and-campaign take on the hot story of the day. I don’t think Bush was talking about Obama. I really could care less whether Bush...

By James Poulos • May 15,2008

Dignity vs. Neediness in the Bioethics War

Star intellectual Steven Pinker, who should be careful whom he calls stupid, has penned (for The New Republic) an attack on the President’s Council on Bioethics that makes my ridicule...

By Sonny Bunch • May 15,2008

Bush Wasn't Talking About Obama Specifically…

Just his mindset. John Podhoretz is 100% right: Bush’s speech–especially the bit drawing fire–was pretty much anti-terrorist boilerplate, the purest distillation of the Bush Doctrine. He and his surrogates and...

By Sonny Bunch • May 15,2008

Do endorsements matter?

I’m not asking that question rhetorically, or with an excess of snark. I’m honestly interested to know. Have you, loyal readers, ever decided who to vote for based on their...

By James Poulos • May 15,2008

Burma's Suffering and Ours

Andrew has a roundup of commentary on the possibility of coercive helpy heroism in Burma, meaning Matt Yglesias and Ross Douthat doing one of their good back and forths (as...

By James Poulos • May 15,2008

The Democratic Crack-Up

Never before have two major parties gotten into such a competitive self-destruction competition. What Bush has done to the Republican party, with poodle-like levels of assistance from Congressional Republicans, is...