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Jan 11, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Luis Parrales |Michael Warren |Jeffery Tyler Syck |Wilson Shirley
An allegory, a nightmare, and a gateway. Published January 11, 2025 In recent years, amid emptying pews and elite apathy, filmmakers trying to both convey a religious sensibility and garner mainstream accolades have taken a few different approaches. Some have focused on a transcendent sense of wonder toward the things of heaven, à la Terrence Malick in The Tree of Life.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jeffery Tyler Syck |Wilson Shirley |Luis Parrales |Christopher J. Scalia
The musical isn’t a rallying cry for individualism—it’s an exploration of casual and callous evil. Published December 7, 2024 When The Wizard of Oz premiered in 1939, no one could have guessed its cultural impact. A fun but largely trite kid’s movie sustained by stunning visuals and heart-wrenching music, it nonetheless became an instant box office success that sparked a plethora of spin-off media.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Flagg Taylor |Robert A. Sirico |Wilson Shirley
It’s past time to banish the American ruling class. Published December 2, 2024 If there’s a word for the guy with the hook who yanks vaudeville performers off the stage after they’ve overstayed their welcome, I’m the premature version of that. Too eager. When Barack Obama wrested the Democratic nomination from Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008, I wrote that I was grateful at least that we wouldn’t have to write about the Clintons anymore.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Michael Warren |Robert A. Sirico |Wilson Shirley
Published December 1, 2024 For your Thanksgiving entertainment, Jonah rethinks his latest conversation with his non-mentor Yuval Levin and ruminates on how both the left and the right Gesellschaft all the Gemeinschaft.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Robert A. Sirico |Wilson Shirley |Kevin Williamson
How remembering the labor of our forbears gives us hope for the future. Published December 1, 2024 • Updated November 30, 2024 Hello and happy Thanksgiving (even if belated)! I hope your food was good and plentiful, and the time with loved ones has been rewarding. And for those for whom the holidays are not so easy, that you still experienced care from others.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Kevin Williamson |Alina Clough |Wilson Shirley
Plus: Have we got some deals for you. Published November 30, 2024 Hello and happy Saturday. Whether it was large or small, festive or quiet, full of old traditions or the source of new ones, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. We were missing a few faces at our family dinner but enjoyed a nice meal with loved ones. Our main focus the last few weeks has been on Donald Trump’s transition back to the White House.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Wilson Shirley |Jonah Goldberg |Luis Parrales |Kevin Williamson
Ridley Scott delivers a thrilling sequel to a changing film landscape. Published November 30, 2024 What if we did Gladiator, but with more special effects and less Russell Crowe? That’s a pithy pitch for the sequel to the Oscar-winning Ridley Scott film from 24 years ago. But if Gladiator II is a revival of the big, bold historical epics with which Scott has become synonymous, little of his latest effort will echo in eternity.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Wilson Shirley
What if we did Gladiator, but with more special effects and less Russell Crowe? That's a pithy pitch for the sequel to the Oscar-winning Ridley Scott film from 24 years ago. But if Gladiator II is a revival of the big, bold historical epics with which Scott has become synonymous, little of his latest effort will echo in eternity. For viewers who associate the Rome of the original with Maximus and the Colosseum, Gladiator II covers familiar territory.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Wilson Shirley |Alex Demas |John Mccormack
We are captains of our own souls and we cannot hand the tiller to anyone else. Published June 7, 2024 Dear Reader (even those of you who can’t keep your fowl in check),I did a lot of punditry this week and I’m sick of it. So look elsewhere if that’s what you’re in the mood for. I cried a bit yesterday, watching some of the coverage of the D-Day commemoration.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Kershaw |Kevin Williamson |Wilson Shirley |Arthur Herman
There are so few left from so many. The 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6 was yet another reminder of how thin the ranks have become of those who served this nation in World War II. Of the around 16 million Americans who did their duty, about 119,000 were still breathing as of 2023. From this cohort of extraordinary survivors, I know of fewer than a dozen Americans who actually saw action on that day in 1944, arguably the most momentous date of the 20th century.
