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  • The Most Beautiful Passage on Sorrow in Literature

    The Most Beautiful Passage on Sorrow in Literature0

    Several years ago, I was reading one of those lists ranking the 100 greatest novels ever written. It was TIME magazine’s list, if I recall correctly. Many of the books I had read, some of them I had not, but nearly all of them I had at least heard of. One of the books I

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  • The Morality of Modern Education is Relativism

    The Morality of Modern Education is Relativism0

    It would be a mistake or, at any rate, an exaggeration to say that modern education has turned its back on morality. It has not. It’s just that the morality it pursues is that of radical relativism with its radical skepticism about the benefits of the “great conversation” that has animated educated discourse for almost

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  • The Moral Problem with that ‘Last Tango’ Rape Scene

    The Moral Problem with that ‘Last Tango’ Rape Scene0

    In the past week a clip of director Bernardo Bertolucci speaking about a scene in the 1972 film The Last Tango in Paris set off a firestorm of controversy on Twitter.  The film tells the story of a recently widowed American man’s sordid sexual affair with a French woman. In the particular scene, the character

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  • The Moral Preening of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    The Moral Preening of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez0

    Six months ago, it would have seemed impossible for the press to be more addicted to someone than they are to Donald Trump. Yet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is clearly giving the president a run for his money. In breathless coverage that any attention-hungry celebrity would sell his own mother to achieve, the media dutifully informs

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  • The Moral Imagination of Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’

    The Moral Imagination of Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’0

    Several nights ago, I reluctantly watched Disney’s 2017 live version of Beauty and the Beast. I must admit three things before I get into the heart of this essay. First, I’ve never been anti-Disney. I know many conservatives think Disney is the end of civilization, but I’ve never seen it that way. Like comic-book superheroes, Disney,

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  • The Moral Imagination of ‘Leave It to Beaver’

    The Moral Imagination of ‘Leave It to Beaver’0

    Russell Kirk defined the moral imagination as “an enduring source of inspiration that elevates us to first principles as it guides us upwards towards virtue and wisdom and redemption.” It is a quality which informs the great works of art, not excluding the more popular art forms of film and television. Since its premiere sixty

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