Commentary - America's Future

By Brendan Conway • Apr 03,2005

The age of judicial activism must end

With the looming departure of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist from a heavily divided United States Supreme Court, the stakes are high for President Bush. What sort of Justice will...

By AF Editors • Mar 27,2005

An Easter reflection on life and death

That so many think it is fine to let Terri Schiavo die shows that Pope John Paul II was painfully correct when he diagnosed our society as afflicted with a...

By AF Editors • Mar 27,2005

Hear no evil, see no evil, file-share no evil?

Last year the Ninth Circuit accepted Grokster's argument that because it has no knowledge of what files are traded and no ability to filter them, it cannot be held liable...

By Kelly Jane Torrance • Mar 21,2005

Recycling is garbage

I’ve always been told that art and politics don’t mix. But I’m starting to question this conventional wisdom. Sometimes politics could use more beauty and subtlety. And sometimes art could...

By AF Editors • Mar 20,2005

Could you pull the plug?

“If I ever get like that, I don’t want to be kept alive. I want you to pull the plug.” My mother has told me that on more than one...

By Emily Helgersen • Mar 13,2005

Italians for The Sopranos

The Sopranos are after me. Or so it seemed in the summer of 2000, because everywhere I turned they were there. My neighborhood in Toronto, Canada was literally plastered with...