Commentary - America's Future

By James Poulos • Jun 12,2008

High Noon For the Neocons´ Global Village

Director Fred Zinnemann, an Austrian Jew, saw himself as steering the film toward a message movie about European failure to fight fascism until it was too late. Zinneman’s vision is...

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 11,2008

Section 8 Housing

That Hanna Rosin piece I blogged about last week is on the web now. I don’t have anything new to add to my previous post, but it’s so worth your...

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 11,2008

Correlation and causality

What’s the saying? “Correlation does not imply causality”? Keep that in mind when reading nonsense like this: Women have made less progress toward gender equality in the Middle East than...

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 11,2008

How much trouble is the NBA in?

On the last day of May in 2002, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Sacramento Kings in the sixth game of the Western Conference Finals in one of the worst...

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 10,2008

The joys of city living … (Updated! With image!)

What I find most amusing about this post at Passive Aggressive Notes is that the person submitting the note complained about the foul language in a couple of the notes...

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 10,2008

High Noon as neocon allegory

No, seriously. I’m glad Kyle Smith wrote this essay, because it’s something that has bothered me for a while but I’ve never been able to put into words. As a...