Titus Techera is the Executive Director of the American Cinema Foundation, host of the ACF podcasts, and a contributor to National Review, Modern Age, Law & Liberty, The American Conservative, and The Federalist.
The comedian is an anti-Romantic: Wherever he steps foot, following in the steps of romantic tourists with their love of the exotic, whether artificial and pre-modern (Europe) or wildly natural (Alaska, safaris), he dispels their illusions.
Education, once a promise of a better future for all, now seems a desperate tournament by which some escape the miserable fate that awaits many others.
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood doesn’t present Dalton and Booth as heroes. They’re by turns endearing, ridiculous, and contemptible. But they do the only admirable things in the story.