Jonathan — You write: “There’s plenty of evidence Hollywood leans left, but the Bourne movies are not among them.”

To the extent I understand your argument, it seems to be that because they made a good movie from a good book, and despite the fact it is a left-wing interpretation of the book, it cannot count as proof that Hollywood is left-leaning. How does that work?

I can’t begin to count how many movies I liked and believed to be objectively good also leaned left. Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Network (sort of), Being There, everything by Woody Allen (which is not to say it was all good), Gandhi, Chinatown, The Graduate, Hair, Dr. Strangelove, They Live (heh): These are just a tiny fraction of the movies that come immediately to mind that leaned left to one degree or another that were also good movies.

Moreover, you can’t possibly be denying that the Bourne movies lean left, are you?

If not, then why can’t I count them as evidence that Hollywood leans left? What am I missing?