Three billboards hover above a country road outside Ebbing, Missouri, and an entire country’s social issues — race, rape, misogyny, poverty — cling to them like peeling paint. When I saw “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” on a cold Midwestern night a few weeks ago, I didn’t move for ten minutes afterward, for shock. I...
Like all Paul Thomas Anderson films, “Phantom Thread” is a study of a family and the love its members share. At the center of the film, which was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, lies the relationship between Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis), a couture dressmaker in 1950s London, and his muse, Alma (Vicky Krieps). All...
Steven Spielberg’s “The Post” opens with an unforgivably cliché Vietnam war scene. Creedence Clearwater Revival plays in the background as men charge through a forest dodging gunfire: cheap special effects made with flashing lights. If you walk in the theater a couple minutes late, you can skip this and get straight to the point. This...
O, you who turn the ship of state and look to windward, consider liberalism, which has failed. In his new manifesto, “Why Liberalism Failed,” the Notre Dame political philosopher argues that the dominating political project of the past 300 years has always been doomed to fail, that a political and social order designed...
As nationalists try to salvage liberalism from the grip of globalists, a Notre Dame professor says both sides labor fruitlessly, as conservative nationalism offers no substantive alternative to progressive globalism. In short, Patrick Deneen, associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, argues that liberalism — whether left-wing or right-wing...