Released in 1941, Citizen Kane is widely regarded as the greatest film ever made despite my falling asleep twice during it in film school, ranked so by the British Film Institute’s poll of critics while also topping the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Movie’s list, but what does that really mean? I’ll confess: I fell… Continue reading Citizen Kane and the greatest movie ever made
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Free speech is not free of consequences and why no one will cry for Jimmy Kimmel
To paraphrase Clint Eastwood, most Americans aren’t all broken up about that man’s rights because we live in a world where speech has consequences and sometimes you simply need to apologize. Democrats and progressives have found a new avatar to express their outrage that President Donald Trump is leading America into a fascist regime, albeit… Continue reading Free speech is not free of consequences and why no one will cry for Jimmy Kimmel
J.K. Rowling isn’t the first artist to be targeted for a lack of ideological purity
Long before Donald Trump arrived on the scene, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter David Mamet declared that he was no longer a braindead liberal. Then as now, progressives responded by claiming he sucked all along. As a conservative, I have long resigned myself to the reality that the great majority of my artistic and… Continue reading J.K. Rowling isn’t the first artist to be targeted for a lack of ideological purity

