Commentary

By Robert VerBruggen • Mar 16,2006

Catholic utopia?

Thoreau built a tiny house on the shores of Walden Pond to experience first-hand the application of his Transcendentalist principles. The Oneida Society maintained a community in New York in...

By AF Editors • Mar 12,2006

Ethanol is good, except when it’s not

President Bush has been quoted as saying, "in Texas, we don't do nuance." But on the issue of ethanol, the Bush administration does so much nuance that they manage to...

By Jonathan Trager • Mar 05,2006

A tribute to Harry Browne

On March 1, bestselling author and former Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne finally succumbed to a neurological disease. He was 72. I’m not claiming to have been a close...

By James N. Markels • Mar 05,2006

The price of overturning Roe v. Wade

Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. Pro-life activists have waited over 30 years for the Supreme Court’s makeup to shift against Roe v. Wade, and...

By Michael Brendan Dougherty • Feb 26,2006

After the human waste and material destruction of WWII, Russell Kirk and Richard Weaver sallied forth with a political and moral traditionalism (an “anti-ideology”, in Kirk’s phrase) grounded in literary...

By Mollie Ziegler Hemingway • Feb 26,2006

Porn Losers

A few years ago I was sitting in a smoky bar with Maria, my hairdresser of the moment. She was this tall, chic, fresh-faced brunette from Michigan who had just...