Commentary - America's Future

By Nicola Moore • Jan 08,2006

The Battle for Social Security

The problem with Nancy Altman’s book, The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble, is not, as the title suggests, that it is deeply partisan. Rather the problem...

By AF Editors • Jan 08,2006

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: An Epic Lesson in Adequacy

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is nothing more than a mild disappointment. It is the epitome of a decent film: thoroughly, depressingly adequate, but not one smidgen more.

By Tim Lee • Dec 18,2005

Eight buns, eight wieners, eight channels

If it's absurd to require newspapers to sell their news, sports, and business sections separately so that consumers can get just what they want, how is forcing cable TV to...

By David Freddoso • Dec 18,2005

Learning from the most expensive sidewalk in Washington

PORTLAND, Maine — President John F. Kennedy is rumored to have said that Washington is famous for its Northern charm and its Southern efficiency. This has never been more evident...

By Kelly Jane Torrance • Dec 11,2005

The Brainwash holiday gift guide 2005

While the sheer number of material objects available for purchase skyrockets, it seems that people are finding it more difficult to choose among them. How else to explain the increasing...

By Peter J. Lynch • Dec 11,2005

Separation anxiety

Michelle McCusker, a 26-year-old preschool teacher from Long Island, recently found herself in an uncomfortable, if not exactly unprecedented, position. She was pregnant and single, with a shotgun wedding not...