Commentary

By Gene Healy • Oct 12,2003

HBO’s K Street: Hollywood for the ugly

Everybody’s looking at the California recall debacle as exhibit A in the unhealthy marriage of celebrity and politics, but the real story’s right here on the East Coast. HBO’s K Street is...

By AF Editors • Oct 12,2003

Latino lessons from the California recall

A look at how Latinos influenced the results of the California recall election and how those results should inform the parties' future efforts to attract Hispanic voters.

By AF Editors • Oct 05,2003

SMU’s brazen bake sale

Sometimes the best way to get at the heart of an issue is to reframe the debate–especially when the basics of a policy problem are taken for granted. A good...

By David Freddoso • Oct 05,2003

Moderates are not the only ones backing Arnold Schwarzenegger in California’s gubernatorial recall election. Particularly among politicians, many true conservatives, such as Representatives Chris Cox and Dana Rohrabacher, are taking...

By AF Editors • Sep 28,2003

The media’s distorted reporting on Iraq

The perception many have that reconstruction is failing in Iraq is due to media distortion and journalists "dwelling upon the mistakes".

By John Coleman • Sep 28,2003

Book review: The End of Democracy?

The End of Democracy?: The Celebrated First Things Debate, With Arguments Pro and Con, and “The Anatomy of a Controversy” by Richard John Neuhaus Edited by Mitchell S. Muncy Spence Publishing Company, 288...

HBO’s K Street: Hollywood for the ugly

Latino lessons from the California recall

SMU’s brazen bake sale

Arnold is no conservative

The media’s distorted reporting on Iraq

Book review: The End of Democracy?