“Cheaper By the Dozen” and A Feminist’s Worst Nightmare
By:After watching a heartbreaking loss in the Elite Eight, my wife and I were "Netflix surfing," hoping to find something to watch together after a long, …
Film Reviews
Westerns and the Male Mode of Feeling- A Review of Hell or Highwater
By:Here at the Maccabee Society we love our Westerns such as Liberty Valance, Slow West, or my own Top Ten Western picks. Although this summer's Hell or …
Liberty Valance and Other Legends for Progressive Schoolmarms
By:Shot very near the end of John Ford’s career, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is an odd western for Ford. Absent are the panoramic vistas of Monument …
John C. Wright on Epic Deprivation Syndrome
By:I was so moved by a recent blog post from one of my favorite authors who still labor under the limitation of continuing to physically breathe, that I n…
The Spiritedness of Slow West — A Cautionary Tale in our Progressive Era
By:The Western is a quintessential American art form. Traditional Westerns spoke to American audiences of a shared culture yearning for self-reliance, jus…
Embracing the Cross — Batman v Superman and the Dawn of Manliness, Part 2
By:Were Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to be considered a fourth part to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy it would pick up a bit over a decade …
Embracing the Cross — Batman v Superman and the Dawn of Manliness, Part 1
By:The Unmanliness of Comics Writing a review of a comic book movie for a website concerned with norms of manliness isn’t a straight forward endeavor. Co…
In the Heart of the Sea: The Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Unsex
By:I approached Ron Howard’s most recent film, In the Heart of the Sea, with trepidation. I am a fan of open boat stories in book and film. Whether it’s M…
Master and Commander: A Movie Review
By:Taking a Break from Politics... Master and Commander As long as we've been discussing the lesser of two evils, and even whether we may so choose if…
Mad Men, Desire and Happiness
By:My wife and I are rabid fans of Mad Men, AMC’s critically-acclaimed drama about an advertising agency in the 1960s. The show surveys America’s most tu…