Unseeing Paterno
April 13, 2018 · Penn State University, HBO, Movie
Al Pacino plays Penn State’s ‘JoePa’ in an HBO movie about the rape scandal.
Commentator and Political Strategist
Jonathan Bronitsky
6 articles 2013–2018
Jonathan Bronitsky is a political and cultural commentator who contributed essays to The Weekly Standard between 2013 and 2018. His pieces for the magazine covered a range of topics including conservative politics, higher education controversies, historical interpretation, and national security issues. He has also worked as a strategic communications adviser and public affairs consultant.
Lest We Forget
July 29, 2016 · Table of Contents, Features, Jonathan Bronitsky
Sherrod Brown was one of nine senators who addressed a luncheon on May 25 celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month. He spent the majority of his time at the podium, not surprisingly and not unlike most of his colleagues, extolling the American Jewish community for its contributions to the civil…
To the Founders, 'All Men' Meant All Women Too
July 28, 2016 · Declaration of Independence, Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump
"Within the context of the times it is clear that 'all men' was a euphemism for 'humanity,' and thus those people, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, who used the Declaration of Independence to demand equality for African Americans and women seized the…
Structural Nonsense
March 11, 2016 · Features, Jonathan Bronitsky, Michigan
In 1989, a small videogame company called Maxis released SimCity, a city-building simulation, inaugurating what would become one of the best-selling computer game series of all time. SimCity's aim was straightforward: As "mayor," the player was challenged with designing and managing a metropolis.…
Jihadi John: How Do You Say Déjà Vu In Cockney?
March 5, 2015 · Terrorism, Bosnia, Jonathan Bronitsky
The biographies of the individuals responsible for the beheadings of James Foley and Daniel Pearl are eerily similar.
Tempering the Conservative Outrage at Michigan State
September 12, 2013 · College, liberalism, Jonathan Bronitsky
Hardly an academic semester goes by without a high-profile opportunity arising for the right to address pervasive, perennial anti-conservative animus on the American college campus. And hardly an academic semester goes by without the right, reflexively blinded by righteous indignation, blowing an…