The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) As Victorian England produced the classic Christmas literary work, Dickens’s A Christmas Carol , 20th-century America has made its distinctive contribution: the Christmas movie. Unfortunately, this genre has continued Dickens’s contrast of the Christmas spirit with the bottom-line heartlessness of
The Free Market 14, no. 5 (May 1996) The dialectic goes like this. First, an artist—I use the term broadly—exhibits something pornographic, blasphemous, or otherwise egregiously offensive. His opus may well be an action, as when an HIV-positive “performance artist” had his back cut open before a surprised audience in Minneapolis. Next, the
The Free Market 16, no. 10 (October 1998) The world has just finished what, for Americans, is the curious spectacle of the Soccer World Cup. Every four years since the 1930s teams representing 32 countries have met (in a different venue each time) to decide who is best. Much of Europe, South America, and Africa come to a halt during the three
It’s Christmas again, time to celebrate the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge. You know the ritual: boo the curmudgeon initially encountered in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol , then cheer the sweetie pie he becomes in the end. It’s too bad no one notices that the curmudgeon had a point—quite a few points, in fact. To appreciate them, it is
The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) Como la Inglaterra victoriana produjo la obra literaria clásica de Navidad, Un cuento de Navidad de Dickens, el Estados Unidos del siglo veinte ha hecho su contribución distintiva: la película de Navidad. Desafortunadamente, este género ha continuado el contraste de Dickens del espíritu navideño con la
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