Lou Aguilar
Exactly 45 years ago, during Ronald Reagan’s first Inaugural celebration, Hollywood legends still lived, and even more amazingly, voted Republican. Reagan was friends with most of them, having been a movie star himself, and they turned out in style to…
There was a major aftershock last week from Donald Trump’s landslide election in November — the public conversion by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the cause of free speech. The full brunt of Zuckerberg’s capitulatory announcement of his intention to…
There’s a sage line in the 1972 Western classic, Jeremiah Johnson, written by the great John Milius. An old mountain man (Will Geer) says it to his former green mentee turned brutal Indian fighter, Jeremiah Johnson (a superlative Robert Redford),…
Hope for the future skyrocketed like an Elon Musk spacecraft at year’s end with the election of Donald Trump. Which heralded not only bright prospects for the greatest nation on Earth, but a blow to the leftist delusions long undermining…
Some years ago, I took a daytime train trip from London north to Edinburgh, Scotland. I particularly enjoyed the journey as a devotee of English-European literature and history. Because I knew that unlike any route in my much younger country,…
For ten years, half of them in this magazine, I have rung the death knell for Hollywoke. Earlier this month, the unlikeliest source joined the bellringing — the New York Times. And when the Gray Lady backs up a conservative…
There is a new sense of tranquility this Advent that may resemble that of the very first one two millennia ago. Shortly before the birth of Our Lord, the Roman republic was rocked by civil wars, assassinations, and much insecurity….
“We know folly and evil when we see it,” X-posted the great American novelist Walter Kirn last week. “That is why literature and drama speak across time and across cultures.” Cinema certainly qualifies. And comic cinema may have the longest,…
This could’ve been a grim Thanksgiving. Spent lamenting the further, faster decline of a glorious nation under re-empowered bad leadership. To the bluster of friends, relatives, and media types cheering her downfall. Many of them hostile to American traditions, beginning…
