Tag: Religion

• *Killers of the Flower Moon*

  (spoilers below) There’s a criticism of some of Martin Scorcese’s movies that he makes the behavior he’s trying to condemn look cool. Scorcese’s Jordan Belfort may be insane scum, but he also oozes charisma. I think there’s a case to be made that Scorcese’s doing a Miltonian thing to show…

  October 30, 2023
• Friday Links

  “I think that ironic detachment, from a religious perspective, is my weakness. You don’t read about a lot of saints who have ironic detachment.”

  October 6, 2023
• Rawls’ Theology and *The Devil Wears Prada*

  I liked this tweet from Zohar Atkins the other day. What Anne Hathaway’s character missed is how her world, the water she swims in, is downstream of the deliberate creations of artists, which are in turn the result of ideas from others that influenced those artists and so on. I…

  October 4, 2023