Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Oct 30,2005

The price of movies

“I’ll wait until it comes out on DVD.” If you find yourself saying this more often when you see a new movie hit the theatres, you’re not alone. DVD sales...

By N.P. Thompson • Oct 30,2005

Life imitating art imitating life

If it accomplishes little else, the current film Capote captures the awesomely bleak austerity of winter afternoons. The matchless cinematography of Adam Kimmel treats us to imposing outdoor vistas in...

By Marc Hyden • Oct 25,2005

Who Killed Archie Bunker? Working-class Television and the Democratic Party

Our cultural elites have some explaining to do. Years before he founded People for the American Way, the chief political organ of the New Left, Norman Lear was a television...

By Meghan Keane • Oct 25,2005

Dirty Harry Siegel takes over the New York Press

When New York Sun writer Tim Marchman and his wife moved to Chicago in 2003, he mentioned that they would have to move back to New York if he and...

By Bryan OKeefe • Oct 25,2005

Labored Analogy

Organized labor, once a pillar of the Democratic party and a major player in American politics, has been reduced to a pale image of its former self. Fifty years ago,...

By AF Editors • Oct 23,2005

Biology vs. humanity

A review of the new book, Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution, by Ron Bailey.