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"Miracle on 34th Street": A Traditionalist Classic

The film could be read less as a whimsically harmless bit of Christmas fluff than as a kind of modern Don Quixote, with a possibly delusional old man embracing the beautiful values that the modern world has rejected and in the process showing up how hollow that modern world really is.

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The March of Dimes: Voting and Its Effect on Individualism

"Voting is not intended to empower individuals, but to disempower them. We understand this whenever we talk about using the power of the ballot box to disrupt some ‘elite’, yet we then turn around and talk about how important each individual vote is and how much power it gives to the individual. "

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A Song for Those Who've Lost Their Country

"When you unapologetically make your views known, the other side has to answer them. Which means they have to acknowledge that there are objections to their views. That is, if nothing else, it prevents them from completely controlling the narrative."

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An American Monarchist Reflects on the Death of the Queen

"We threw off the British monarchy and have no official ties to it any longer. Yet we are so close to our mother country in so many ways that I, at least, can’t help feeling almost as if we are included in this loss."

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Jaws and American Manhood

Brody is hamstrung in his manhood by concerns and conventions that force him to bow to his neighbors, but once take those away, and he will rise to the occasion and claim his manhood again.

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Detective Philosophy

"People don’t want to accept even the possibility of discrimination, and so they default to “it doesn’t matter” to avoid providing an excuse for it. That is to say, they put truth second to expedience."

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Society Slaps Itself

Smith’s actions were just another sign that the edifice of manners and social norms – the edifice that our rulers simultaneously mock and flaunt whenever it suits them and hide behind whenever they’re attacked – is beginning to crack.

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The Moral Realism of ‘Megamind’

Megamind is a villain-centric story that doesn’t try to undermine the moral premise of its source material.

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Merry Christmastide- Perhaps Not So Merry but Still Very Bright!

Tonight we celebrate the birth of our Lord, and while our circumstances may not be as "merry" as we would want the to be, we shouldn't forget that despite all the darkness, our Lord's birth is the great light to the world. What "child is this?" This is CHRIST THE LORD!

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"Miracle on 34th Street": A Traditionalist Classic

The film could be read less as a whimsically harmless bit of Christmas fluff than as a kind of modern Don Quixote, with a possibly delusional old man embracing the beautiful values that the modern world has rejected and in the process showing up how hollow that modern world really is.

The March of Dimes: Voting and Its Effect on Individualism

A Song for Those Who've Lost Their Country

"When you unapologetically make your views known, the other side has to answer them. Which means they have to acknowledge that there are objections to their views. That is, if nothing else, it prevents them from completely controlling the narrative."

An American Monarchist Reflects on the Death of the Queen

"We threw off the British monarchy and have no official ties to it any longer. Yet we are so close to our mother country in so many ways that I, at least, can’t help feeling almost as if we are included in this loss."

Jaws and American Manhood

Brody is hamstrung in his manhood by concerns and conventions that force him to bow to his neighbors, but once take those away, and he will rise to the occasion and claim his manhood again.

Detective Philosophy

"People don’t want to accept even the possibility of discrimination, and so they default to “it doesn’t matter” to avoid providing an excuse for it. That is to say, they put truth second to expedience."

Society Slaps Itself

Smith’s actions were just another sign that the edifice of manners and social norms – the edifice that our rulers simultaneously mock and flaunt whenever it suits them and hide behind whenever they’re attacked – is beginning to crack.

The Moral Realism of ‘Megamind’

Megamind is a villain-centric story that doesn’t try to undermine the moral premise of its source material.

Merry Christmastide- Perhaps Not So Merry but Still Very Bright!

Tonight we celebrate the birth of our Lord, and while our circumstances may not be as "merry" as we would want the to be, we shouldn't forget that despite all the darkness, our Lord's birth is the great light to the world. What "child is this?" This is CHRIST THE LORD!

Kamala's Doublethink Conundrum

Just Another Person with an Opinion

Punching Up by Laughing Out Loud- A Review of Am I Racist?