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On the Front Lines of the Culture Wars
Why didn’t Charlie Chaplin’s stirring speech become an icon of freedom?
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Back in the darkest days of World War II, when the Nazis were blitzkreiging unstoppably across Europe’s democracies, as millions of Jews, gypsies and uncooperative Christians were gassed at concentration camps, as America was gripped in fear that California and Oregon were next after Pearl Harbor, an eccentric movie was released. In it the famed…
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