Republican Screening

Imagine the Republican Party riding off into the sunset. The late film director, John Ford, would not be happy at that prospect. This article, from Powerline via Todd Zywicki, describes the parallels between Ford's films and Republican orthodoxy and why neither is likely to disappear from the American scene anytime soon. Articles like this one reinforce the significance of popular culture to historians and demonstrate how more traditional subjects can be enlivened for the non-historians among us. Good work.