Source: Law & Liberty
by Titus Techera
“Halloween has gradually become an occasion for horror movies, even as it has emerged as part of a new kind of autumn-worship very well catered to by every aspect of our commercial society. It may, in a secularizing America, even be making a run at Christmas’s place as the national holiday. Both of these tendencies somehow come from our rejection of authority, both the authority of the past and the authority of religion over both conscience and behavior. But it might be better to reflect on Halloween and the conflict between our love of freedom and respect for the past from a comic point-of-view, avoiding the extremes of fear and pleasure we seek from our media today. So I recommend Frank Capra’s 1944 picture Arsenic and Old Lace …” (10/31/24)