TOS Weekly - Celebrate Producers this Thanksgiving
Plus the movie that updated James Bond for the 1990s, the inspiring legend of Bruce Lee, Henry Hazlitt in one lesson, and the moral courage of Rosa Parks.
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at The Objective Standard! This holiday is a unique celebration of the virtue that made America great and that makes human life possible: productiveness, a virtue Craig Biddle celebrates in his Thanksgiving tribute to producers and value-creators of all kinds and his article on why we should say justice rather than grace.
In that spirit, one of the values I’ve produced this week is a short retrospective article on one of my all-time favorite movies, GoldenEye, which turns 30 this year. At a time when many thought that James Bond movies were an outdated relic of the Cold War, GoldenEye modernized and matured the series for the new context of the 1990s while keeping its fundamental elements intact—a clear statement that Bond’s values of heroism, patriotism, and the defense of Western freedom are timeless.
I hope you enjoy this week’s articles!
Thomas Walker-Werth
What’s New?
How GoldenEye Brought James Bond into the Modern World
If you’re looking for rich, thought-provoking cinema, a James Bond movie is probably not what you’re going to watch. Both Ian Fleming’s original novels and most of the twenty-five 007 films convey a general theme of heroism and patriotism, focusing on the defense of Western freedom and the British way of life from Soviet and other threats. Beyond that, …
From the Archive
Happy Thanksgiving from The Objective Standard
From everyone at The Objective Standard to everyone who thinks, produces, trades, and thereby creates the values on which human life and happiness depend: Thank you.
Don’t Say Grace, Say Justice
But there is a grave injustice involved in the tradition of saying grace at meal time. It is the injustice of thanking an alleged God for the productive accomplishments of actual men.
Birthdays and Anniversaries
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