Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 15,2010

Roger Ebert and the specter of death

I hope that subject doesn’t come across as too ghoulish — Ebert is a man I respect a great deal, and arguably the most important film critic of all time...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 15,2010

Neither silver nor bronze is as good as a gold at the Olympics

It’s time for my biannual Olympics complaint: The way that Olympics watchers compile medal counts is asinine. Look at this chart over at ESPN. They just total up the medals...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 15,2010

Huh, interesting…

I meant to post a wholehearted agreement with Spencer Ackerman’s take on journalists using “interesting” in a story, but forgot until Andrew referred to it. So yes: A journalist using...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 13,2010

Remix culture

I’d be curious to know what Julian Sanchez — the author of this post and this clip on the evolution of remix as it relates to culture — makes of...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 12,2010

The uninsured and mortality rates

Over at the Standard’s blog I have a post up linking to Megan McArdle’s recent column about the impact on mortality rates of health insurance. McArdle’s basic point is that...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 12,2010

Captain America, Iron Man, and registering people

So Spencer Ackerman recently sided with Iron Man over Captain America in the “should superheroes have to register in order to practice their superherodom” debate. In case that was too...