I’m writing this from a plane headed to Los Angeles for the winter edition of the Television Critics Association press tour. I’ll be spending the rest of the week there, reporting on what’s coming this fall to cable networks and streaming services. (Those of you who are excited about Tina Fey’s new show for Netflix, “The Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt,” prepare to be very happy).
Helping me out while I’m asking questions in panels and running from interview to interview is my friend Sonny Bunch, the executive editor of the Washington Free Beacon, where he writes about culture and politics and reviews movies. (He’s also a former film critic for the Washington Times and an assistant editor of books and arts for the Weekly Standard. And his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary and Reason, among other outlets.)
As you might have guessed from his home publication, Sonny and I come from rather different ideological perspectives, though I often think of us as engaged in a similar project, given the way we write about how culture, politics, manners and mores all work on each other. I’m particularly pleased to have him here with us for a few days because our conversations have shaped a great deal of my thinking about everything from Gamergate as an inevitable adoption of very successful left critiques of culture to the outrage we ought to feel about the theft of intimate photos of female celebrities. Most of all, he’s made me think hard about what it means for us to live at a time when every aspect of life is so often intensely politicized and how to develop coherent and livable standards for living in such an environment.
I hope you’ll give Sonny a very warm welcome.
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