You are right about the entertaining part of Bunge's work Lowell. In fact, the guy was a pioneer in the kind of work we are used to seeing daily nowadays.
He started applying statistical references to reveal in a graphic way the injustices inherent to inner cities and then focussed on nuclear weaponry.

I tried locating him on the internet but he has evaporated from public discourse it seems. Anyhow, it would be interesting to hear what he has to say about Detroit's progression/regression of the past forty years.

I am guessing his communistic tendencies probably stemmed from his frustration in dealing with the harshness of academe when he was kicked out of Wayne State by the long arm of Nixonian MacCarthyism. I wonder if he has any contact with the good folks at Wayne State who have revived interest in his work of late...