In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Titus Techera
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After a Halloween consideration of Tim Burton’s vision of all-American freaks, I’d like to offer you a similarly strange tribute to Woody Allen’s Thanksgiving. The juxtaposition may seem strange, yet Burton and Allen are outsiders who became famous artists. They succeeded largely because they understand that it is funny, and not a little flattering, for…
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Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns might be the perfect Halloween movies. They were big successes back in 1989 and 1992, grossing together more than a billion dollars (adjusted for inflation). They are fun popcorn movies, but also weird artistic experimentsthat embrace the juvenile character of American pop culture while revisiting cinema history. Batman and…
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Sometime recently we came to the end of the era of 9/11 movies. Our politics have changed, as have the generations and the preferred technologies for entertainment. We are also ready, perhaps, even to forget that there was an attempt to destroy the World Trade Center, along with other iconic locations. So this is the…
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A recent Washington Monthly report by Robert Kelchen and Marc Novicoff on the pro-Palestine campus protests and encampments put together the data to show a very interesting social fact which we have had to learn or relearn in recent years of “mostly peaceful protests.” The authors ask and answer: Kelchen and Novicoff not only correlate…
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Memorial Day is the one federal holiday that connects the nation to war and requires sustained reflection on the most serious actions the government asks of the citizens. Since Vietnam, this has been made difficult by the loss of national unity. The major facts are known. The WWII-era draft was replaced by the all-volunteer army,…
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For a generation or two, America’s favorite Christmas movie was Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) and it’s easy to see why. The movie stars Jimmy Stewart, the most all-American star in old Hollywood, and shows him at his best. He has a lovely family and his drama is the drama of self-government, the…