Commentary - America's Future

By Alvino-Mario Fantini • Aug 27,2006

Albion’s wayward children

Our "special relationship" with England goes deeper than simply speaking the same language, the great political virtues, moral habits and social customs which made America great are rooted in Englishness.

By AF Editors • Aug 27,2006

Irish lullabies

How folk Irish ditties instill a healthy distrust of authority and government power in the old and the young.

By AF Editors • Aug 20,2006

Cooler heads on global warming

There’s a storm brewing over global warming–or, more accurately, storms aren’t brewing, and that’s causing a storm in itself. People preaching the dangers of global warming predicted that warmer air...

By Joanne McNeil • Aug 20,2006

News Radio Toyota

Tomorrow’s Technology Today reports are “brought to you by Toyota” — but so is the news itself. A good half of the Boston radio station WBZ’s technology news segments are...

By Daniel Larison • Aug 13,2006

A necessary moral equivalence

“We are all Lebanese now.” That is not a phrase likely to be heard coming from any American politician or official of either party, much less from any professional pundit....

By Michael Brendan Dougherty • Aug 13,2006

Complacency: Enemy of the state

“As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.” That is the thesis of Joel Miller’s Size Matters, a book which received too little attention at its release earlier...