Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 25,2010

Ecological subtext in Psycho and Silence of the Lambs? Que?

Nestled in a New York Times piece about the liberal sensibilities of Participant Media is this odd little nugget: Like many of the better suspense thrillers, from “Psycho” to“Jaws” to...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 24,2010

Was Joseph Stack a terrorist?

It seems that Matt Steinglass is on pretty much the same wavelength I am regarding the IRS plane bomber, Joseph Stack: So I think that on definitional grounds, you have...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 24,2010

Teachers unions are the worst, cont.

The New York Times has what amounts to a follow up on the New Yorker’s examination of the NYC school system’s “rubber rooms,” the place where disciplined/ineffective teachers are sent...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 23,2010

Gee, you know what else is really quotable? That Casablanca!

Via JVL comes this little nugget from Ezra Klein. And no, I’m not talking about his health care analysis — we all know I could give a fig about health...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 23,2010

“Up in the Air” and privilege

Over at his revamped digs,* Freddie DeBoer critiques Up in the Air: The problem is, on a broader level, that Ryan Bingham is a privileged person with privileged problems. An...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 23,2010

The entertainment industry produces nothing of value?

The first comment on my review of The Hollywood Economist over at the Wall Street Journal is rather perplexing: After totaling up the revenue that Hollywood pulls in from home...