Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Jul 11,2005

What Would Reagan Do? Lessons from the Gipper

This is the summer of our discontent. The American public is finally asking hard questions about President Bush’s stewardship of the Iraq war. Although voters share Bush’s vision of a...

By AF Editors • Jul 10,2005

O’Connor’s wake

With Justice Sandra Day O’Connor having announced her retirement, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist rumored to be soon to follow, talk of legacies has been rampant. Some have argued that...

By David Freddoso • Jul 04,2005

The dukes of Kelo

In the very first episode of the first season of the Dukes of Hazzard, the Hazzard County Health Department threatens to close a local orphanage unless its private owners can bring...

By Eric Neigher • Jul 04,2005

Safe boxing

Since this is my first piece for a magazine with “brain” in the title, I figure I can’t go wrong writing about somebody’s brain. That somebody is “Baby” Joe Mesi,...

By AF Editors • Jun 27,2005

Live 8 not that great

Despite what Bob Geldof might think, what Africa needs is capitalism, not a bigger handout that will inevitably fall into the wrong hands.

By AF Editors • Jun 27,2005

The libertarian bore

Understanding the implosion of the Libertarian Bore: the perfect mirror image of the Marxist who constantly ruins everyone else's dinner with his incessant dialectics.