Aubrey Harris

1 week ago | spectator.org | Aubrey Harris |Aubrey Gulick

At this point, Greta Gerwig is widely recognized as a rising star in the film industry — not as an actress, but as a screenwriter and director. Responsible for films like Lady Bird, Little Women (2019), and Barbie, she’s clearly aiming to write her name in indelible ink as one of the greats in the filmmaking business. Netflix has also suffered from the cultural counter revolution against wokeism. Her next big project? C.S. Lewis’s Narnia. And she’s reportedly on track to totally ruin it.

2 weeks ago | spectator.org | Aubrey Harris |Aubrey Gulick

Here’s a fact most journalists and the economists they interview won’t admit: No one really knows what imposing tariffs on foreign countries like there’s no tomorrow will actually do to the American and global economies. Sure, the markets are currently panicking, but unless the individuals commenting on President Donald Trump’s tariffs have suddenly acquired crystal balls, they’re just as mystified about the whole thing as the readers turning to them to try and make sense of it are.

2 weeks ago | spectator.org | Aubrey Harris |Aubrey Gulick

There are some lives that even the most optimistic among us dare not eulogize; Theodore E. McCarrick’s life might very well fall into that category. Once the highest prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, the former cardinal and archbishop of Washington was defrocked and forced to resign in 2018 after it was revealed publicly that he had been sexually abusing minors and seminarians for years.

3 weeks ago | spectator.org | Aubrey Harris |Aubrey Gulick

There are several ways to approach America’s abortion problem. The one most pro-lifers are most familiar with involves overturning Supreme Court rulings and writing legislation that makes it more and more difficult to provide a legal abortion. It’s a good strategy. After all, to paraphrase St. Paul, law is a teacher and so, if we want to change the culture, law isn’t a bad place to start. It is, however, inefficient and slow. Another way to approach the problem?

4 weeks ago | spectator.org | Aubrey Harris |Aubrey Gulick

Hollywood tends to think it’s on the cutting edge of the culture. That was probably true 100 or even 50 years ago, but it hasn’t been true for a good long while. At this point, it’s probably safe to say that Hollywood is well behind the culture, and Disney’s release of its live action Snow White over the past weekend is the perfect example. (You could say that Hollywood is hopelessly liberal and needs to be destroyed and restarted from scratch. That argument fails to account for market demand.