Commentary - America's Future

By David Freddoso • Mar 13,2005

Raise the minimum IQ, while you’re at it

Another year, another attempt to raise the federal minimum wage. Back in late 2003, San Franciscans voted in a referendum to make low-skilled labor cost $8.50 per hour — far...

By Tim Lee • Mar 13,2005

Dreaming of DRM

Digital rights management technologies may yet prove an effective piracy deterrent, and companies should be free to deploy them. But requiring customers to comply with them on pain of criminal...

By J.P. Maloney Jr. • Mar 06,2005

A savage literary journey meets its end

Hunter S. Thompson, the journalist and author whose acerbic wit and idiosyncratic prose colored the late 1960s and early 1970s, is dead at 67. He took his own life by...

By Slater Bakhtavar • Mar 06,2005

Iranians for Bush

Iranians, connected to the outside world by satellite dishes and the Internet, are now pro-American, but they won't be if the U.S. intervenes militarily.

By AF Editors • Feb 28,2005

Imagine there’s no countries

Free trade, to the degree it means the right to dispose of your own property as you wish, is a pro-freedom idea. "Free trade," when it involves international bodies and...

By AF Editors • Feb 28,2005

The feds and your medical data

Federally mandated electronic medical records may sound wonderful, but before rushing to put a system in place, we need to consider the downsides.