Great men prove what we are capable of, but they also prove that institutions are not by themselves enough.
Titus Techera
There is much to learn from Pippin, but there is more to learn from Aristotle—first of all, to take the plot seriously.
We need not grifters or hysterical celebrities, but people dedicated to public concerns who will defend our rights to our private lives.
In treating the military as an education rather than a job or a weapon, Beauchamp illuminates the restlessness of the American heart.
If we understand the woke madness and the deeper liberal madness driving it, we should be able to fight for America without becoming like the woke.
Who will mind the public business? Our elites will. After all, busybodying is their job and their job is all they ever do.
Nationalism itself encloses a secret hope of rebirth which would, properly thought through, go beyond politics.
The show is self-righteous about an entirely inverted reality—a Venezuela that is somehow the victim of nationalism in need of social justice.
Die Hard is our Christmastime Western, edifying children and adults alike about the need for the manly virtues.
In Coppola’s telling, the American way of war tends toward either incompetence or brutality.
How dare free American citizens say something in favor of political freedom.
If we wish to understand what's happening to some of our elites, we had better turn instead to more durable sources of wisdom—poetry and film, above all.
It is up to the people of Britain to reassert their democratic right to elect their representatives and thus consent to government.
His comedy points out that liberalism, which once respected human equality and difference, now imposes rapidly changing woke dogma in its place.
Cantor explores the dangers of individualism: apathy and violence; the yearning for success at any cost; and the ongoing failure of confidence in America.
The only way America could produce a true populist, a home-grown demagogue that could rise to the top of national politics, would be through the media.
The promise of lawless freedom is partly deceptive; something beyond mere individualism is required to make a community.
Those of us who argue that what we conserve is freedom together with equality need to make an ally of Thiel.
Unless elites propose to elect another people, as Bertold Brecht joked, they'll just have to stop calling it “far right.”
The French need something more than policy speeches—they need to face their catastrophe with faith and thus rediscover powers that have long languished.
If we had writers as wise and daring as Aristophanes, someone would be telling us what's going on with us today.
Despite fascinating so many, The Matrix failed because it shares the modern aversion to tragedy, and leaves us with a flattened view of humanity.
Bosch's manliness and stoic sense of duty combine with the absence of faith to make him serve those who need him without hoping for a just order.
Remembering a film that foreshadowed the big labor-capital conflict over dignity that we also see nowadays rocking our politics, society, and economy.
Nobody stopped to think these films were not just comedy, but also stories about a coming class conflict in America.
There are limits to self-delusion for a free people, and Snyder's Watchmen ruthlessly probes them.
The second "Fantastic Beasts" movie takes us to that familiar J.K. Rowling realm, where moral conformism goes hand in hand with a desire for distinction.
The new Jack Ryan reflects how much has changed since the Cold War, and the result is an insightful mirror into American society.
The new wave of Netflix-Marvel shows offers viewers superficial moralism alongside a strong dose of American individualism.
Our science fiction is not open to the soul's longings as revealed through eroticism, community, and faith: turning to Walker Percy can help remedy this.
Justice Kennedy's retirement marks the end of an era, but are we prepared for what comes next?
We are about to learn that the First Amendment is the cornerstone of our civil peace by seeing it endangered: this is the real lesson of Masterpiece.
We often imagine technological tyranny and yet our famous dystopian stories are never successfully filmed: HBO's Fahrenheit 451 breaks the trend.
There are no Greek demigods among us, but Tom Wolfe gave us heroes—the men who dare deal with the crazy consequences of our modern freedom.
What happens when government places citizens in a radical conflict between love of family and the law.
The movie that inserted existentialism into our understanding of science fiction on screen.