Commentary - America's Future

By James Kirchick • May 22,2006

My Fellow Yalie: The Taliban Dude

Like most other people affiliated with Yale University, I was shocked to learn that a former high-level spokesperson for the Taliban, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, has been enrolled in the non-degree...

By AF Editors • May 22,2006

Zombie Politics

Stephen King is much more of a craftsman than he is usually given credit for, and his books are always entertaining. Cell goes off track, however, when the author pauses...

By Mollie Ziegler Hemingway • May 22,2006

The Decline of Straight Sex … and the Rise of Gay Entertainment

With all the gay cowboy jokes being told and the recent torrent of media announcing HBO’s new polygamy drama Big Love, it seems everybody is talking about what happens when...

By Michael Brendan Dougherty • May 21,2006

The lost man of the Right

Since the end of the Cold War, the politics of the West have been characterized by broad consensus. In The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama informs...

By Eric Cohen • May 17,2006

Enemy of the Future? The Economy of Genes, Biotechnology, and the Limits of Genes

It turns out the new economy is human after all. All signals on the horizon suggest that the American economy is heading for a serious slowdown, perhaps even a downturn....

By Elizabeth Arens • May 17,2006

David Brooks’s America: Strong, Capable, and Hard-working. But virtuous?

David Brooks was the quintessential journalist of 1990s America. As New Republic editor Peter Beinart has written, in those years “the hottest magazine writing was anthropological.” Armed with a sharp...