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‘Beauty and the Beast’: Tropes as old as time, wrongs as old as rhyme
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‘Beauty and the Beast’: Tropes as old as time, wrongs as old as rhyme

Disney’s live action remake of “Beauty and the Beast” took $170 million from American moviegoers in its opening weekend, making it the biggest opening ever for a Disney live action remake or a PG-rated movie. Those are impressive stats, and although “Beauty and the Beast” dazzles, it does not deliver. By clinging tightly to the...

No choice between nostalgia and defeatism in ‘The Benedict Option’
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No choice between nostalgia and defeatism in ‘The Benedict Option’

Before “The Benedict Option,” there was just Rod Dreher and his new book’s eponymous idea. But come March 14, the American Conservative blogger promises a full explanation of the murky term with “a strategy for Christians in a post-Christian nation.” Although Dreher delivers, his strategy tempts his audience to believe Christians can only survive modernity’s...