Commentary - America's Future

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...

By Morton Blackwell • Aug 13,2006

Petty differences?

I read with interest John Rutledge’s article in The Washington Times on AF’s libertarian vs. conservative debate. In my view, some such confrontations are interesting. But I’d be careful not...

By James Poulos • Aug 06,2006

Love, erased: Radiohead’s Yorke, soloist

A review of the new solo album by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.

By David Freddoso • Aug 06,2006

A true inconvenience

President Bush has announced that our nation is addicted to oil, but that isn’t true at all. I am addicted to cigarettes, I am not addicted to water. Yet if...

By AF Editors • Aug 06,2006

Beware: The Government Wants to Help

Millions of Americans have lost billions of dollars in recent weeks as the stock market bubble popped and corporate accounting fraud came to the forefront. The media blame capitalism. In...

By AF Editors • Jul 30,2006

The ride of the Regulators

The story of the private army that, in 1892, shut down upstart western ranchers, and why the White House took its side.