Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Feb 07,2001

Bipartisan Posturing and Forced Evenhandedness: An Election Retrospective

As soon as Al Gore finished his concession speech, it was obvious: we had elected the wrong man for the job. Only too late had Gore revealed his true self,...

By AF Editors • Feb 06,2001

Green Grinches

Jim Carrey wasn’t the only Grinch to terrorize us this Christmas season. America’s holiday rituals were besieged by another sort of misanthrope – this one a little less furry, but...

By AF Editors • Feb 04,2001

Cappuccino Conservatives

We always knew something was wrong, those of who had to endure liberal baby boomers preaching at us from the padded pulpits of tenured professorships. Xers like myself knew instinctively...

By AF Editors • Feb 03,2001

Bush v. Media: The Big Game

A favorite game played by members of Washington’s chattering class is the following: 1) distort a conservative position beyond recognition, and 2) then take great glee in accusing conservatives of...

By AF Editors • Jan 01,2001

Kink-y Paleocons?

It’s easy for a Republican to get an inferiority complex in Manhattan. When the guy at the desk beside you with the Nader poster is also a published poet who...

By David Donadio • Nov 13,2000

Pakistani Taliban abducts Iranian diplomat in Peshawar

It’s these sorts of things that make you wonder what the situation in South Asia would look like if we hadn’t squandered so many opportunities for cooperation since September 11th:...