Author: Sonny Bunch

By Jun 17,2008

Poverty and crime, cont.

I want to follow up on that Hanna Rosin piece I’ve been touting for the last couple of weeks with two very disheartening stories, both of which reveal the deeper...

By Jun 16,2008

A progressive book club?

It’s easy to make jokes about the publishing industry being full of liberals, or churning out books about liberals for liberals. I think the bigger problem is probably region bias....

By Jun 16,2008

Meet the Press

Over at the Weekly Standard‘s blog, I write up the four big Sunday morning talk shows each weekend. It’s not exhaustive, typically not too much more than brief summaries of...

By Jun 13,2008

The Promotion

Of the five new movies I saw this week (War, Inc., The Happening, The Promotion, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, and Mongol), I can say without reservation that The Promotion...

By Jun 13,2008

Who are we fighting?

Starting in 2002 during the war with Afghanistan, the United States began capturing large numbers of combatants on the battlefield. The State and Defense departments were unsure what to do...

By Jun 13,2008

Mark Wahlberg

So, in my review of The Happening, I mention that Mark Wahlberg “regresses to the novice we saw in Boogie Nights.” His performance is just that bad. I didn’t blame...