Author: Sonny Bunch

By Sep 22,2008

Defending the Rosenbergs

I’ve never really understood the radical left’s desire to lionize the Rosenbergs as martyrs: treason is the one crime specifically listed in the Constitution (with death a possible penalty); they...

By Sep 19,2008

Free speech and the left

Back at my old AF joint, I had a running series of posts on instances of left-wing types failing to live up to the ideal of free speech: namely, an...

By Sep 18,2008

Divided Government

At the AF roundtable last night, I argued less for John McCain than against Barack Obama, mainly on the idea that with an energized Democratic Senate and House (combined with...

By Sep 17,2008

Journalism as predation

There’s an interesting story up over at Slate; it’s a reprint of a discussion about the photographer Jill Greenberg and the nature of photography in general. After discussing the illegality...

By Sep 11,2008

Putin's America, cont.

October 7, 2006: Independent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya murdered in her Moscow apartment. July 9, 2004: American journalist Paul Klebnikov shot on the streets of Moscow. March 13, 2006: Russian...