“It is well that war is so terrible — otherwise we would grow too fond of it,” Robert E. Lee once said. And it is important to have that balance between viewing war as something horrible and insane and viewing war as cartoonish, Media and Movie Critic James Bowman said at the Center for Constructive [...]
As men headed off to fight against the Nazis, so did Hollywood. At the Hillsdale College Center for Constructive Alternatives lecture on March 5, John Marini, professor of political science at University of Nevada, Reno, described the dedication of John Ford, who filmed battles of World War II. Marini wrote several books on American politics [...]