Commentary - America's Future

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...

By AF Editors • Sep 22,2003

Tyrants in robes

Be afraid. B very afraid. State and federal judges are usurping democracy and attempting to impose their own vision of utopia.

By David Harsanyi • Sep 21,2003

The hypocritical environmentalism of celebrities

Supporting and funding alternative means of energy in an effort to eliminate America’s dependency on foreign oil and reduce pollution has long been one of the stated causes of progressive...

By Jerry Brito • Sep 14,2003

The libertarian case for Clark

For those on the Right not too happy with President Bush, perhaps a Wesley Clark candidacy wouldn't be such a bad idea.

By Kelly Jane Torrance • Sep 14,2003

Against biography?

British literary feuds are such fun. The journalist, novelist, and biographer A.N. Wilson has just published a biography of sorts of Iris Murdoch. I say “of sorts” because Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her is not a...