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In which I concede, reluctantly, that the prequels are Star Wars movies:
nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/…
Actual Star Wars movies, ranked:

Empire
Star Wars
Jedi
...
Rogue One
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Sith
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Phantom Menace
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...
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Clones
Kylo Ren and Rey's relationship, if abstracted from the larger movies in which it develops, could also qualify as canon.
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This seems not-exactly-right in an important way. In most ways the 1990s were, judged by polling and behavior, more socially conservative than the '70s and '80s.
Taibbi is right that the Boomers overthrew an age of greater of prudery, but the excesses of the Hefner-Polanski era produced a mild conservative backlash, an era interlude of bourgeois liberalism that tried to strike a balance between the '50s and the '70s.
Think Tipper Gore vs. record labels, "Dan Quayle Was Right," the @sullydish conservative case for same-sex marriage, plus dropping divorce and teen birth rates - they all emerged out of this matrix.
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A brief thought about The Letter and political alignments, occasioned by Tyler Cowen's comment here:
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
I would say the de facto message of the signatory list is more along the lines of, "this is a battle within liberal institutions, and we represent an alliance of liberals and left-wingers against the emergent orthodoxy." With conservatives therefore less excluded than irrelevant.
Tactically this makes a certain amount of sense: Conservatives (at least those of us to the right of the letter's rightmost signatories) really are somewhat epiphenomenal to current battles over the direction of academia or media or pop-culture discourse ...
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A couple of thoughts on this @OsitaNwanevu essay, mostly in the interest of clarifying the debate:
newrepublic.com/article/158346…
Start with this section, which defends those institutions that appear to be narrowing their range of permissible debate against charges of "illiberalism":
I think the assumption made by Chait, Sullivan, and other ppl the essay criticizes *is* precisely that a healthy liberal culture depends not just on formal 1st Amendment guarantees, but also on having important cultural institutions committed to liberal values.
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