Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 14,2010

Pat Robertson's an idiot…

…and a number of people have said as much! Just looking at my own meager Twitter feed, I’ve seen about a half dozen comments from people saying that Robertson —...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 13,2010

Michael Mann and sound mixes (updated)

A few years back, in his review of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice for The Weekly Standard,* John Podhoretz complained that the sound mix made it almost impossible to hear the...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 13,2010

John McCormack, destroyer of campaigns

First, John McCormack — a reporter for The Weekly Standard — goes to New York to cover the special election in NY-23 and ends up getting the cops called on...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 13,2010

On political readings of film

In my various discussions of Avatar, I’ve tried to stay away from the obvious political aspects of the film — it’s a mass of hoary liberal cliches about big business...

By AF Editors • Jan 13,2010

Obama: Wimp or warrior?

The NY Times has stirred the pot by asking this question on the front page of its latest Week in Review. Bob Stein suggests this is just a tread-worn conservative...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 12,2010

Oliver Stone's a fool

Let’s play a game: “Which one of these doesn’t belong?” “Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy — these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history,” Stone told reporters at the Television...