Lou Aguilar
How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises By Spencer Klavan (Regnery Publishing, 256 pages, $30) “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana. In his stirring new book, How to…
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night In the 21st…
When I wrote my recent essay for this magazine about the death of beauty in cinema, I didn’t mean the literal death of beauties. Lamentably, last week, two famous screen sirens died for real — including the ultimate sex symbol…
I intended to write only one movie-themed Valentine’s Day piece this week — on how the death of the heteronormative love story by a thousand feminist cuts — the banishment of male role models, femininity erasure, “Me Too” abuse, gender…
“When you’re taking flak, you’re right over the target.” Never has the World War II expression been truer than regarding the current liberal wrath over Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his efforts to turn my home state into a modern…
There has been much appropriate scorn on the abominable statue recently erected atop a New York City state courthouse. Literally a golden idol, the horror — obligatorily sculpted by a feminist woman artist of color, Pakistani Shahzia Sikander — is…
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree. Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man Down to the sunless sea — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Watching cinema inexorably die, of internal wounds, may…
Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart… — Jeremiah 1:5 Everything the modern Left says is a lie. Climate change is not an existential threat. There is no systemic…
As someone who has written movies and about the movies for some time, the current state of cinema makes me melancholic. Not just because its asinine liberal messaging is so tedious, but because it wallows in darkness, debauchery, and despair…
