In preparation for Christmas, the New York Times has offered two different interpretations of It’s a Wonderful Life in the last week. Both rightly give emphasis to the disturbing, much darker hues of what is only an intermittently sentimental movie. Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey spends most of his adult life being” frustrated and warped” (as [...]
Archive for December, 2008
A Wonderful Life, pleasure, and freedom
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart, movies, utilitarianism on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Truth, Torture, and America’s Responsibility
Posted in culture, ideas, politics, tagged America, Christianity, France, George Bush, History, politics, Sexuality, Spain, Torture on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Given the release of the torture report by the Senate Armed Services Committee this week,as well as the recent comments by Ross Douthat, and today’s New York Times’ editorial, the following is worth some thought:
In his unflinching Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de las Casas described how the Spanish punished [...]
