Onalee McGrawJul 30, 202011 minLoving Rightly in Community through the Art of Classic Film: Ten Case Studies "To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way...for the object of education is to teach us...
Onalee McGrawJul 27, 202010 minTaking the Higher Road to Civic Friendship with Classic Films in a Broken World "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge an...
Onalee McGrawNov 15, 20195 minDouble Indemnity: Classic Realism in "Code-Sealed" HollywoodThe Definitive Film Noir about Love Gone Wrong Double Indemnity is famous for becoming the film that defined the Film Noir genre. In Film...
Onalee McGrawOct 26, 20194 minThe Best Years of Our Lives: Golden Age Storytelling in the Mode of Classic Realism“Order, it has become clear, is a very fragile thing; And order is especially vulnerable under the cultural conditions of a postmodern wo...
Onalee McGrawOct 23, 20195 minElevating the Human Spirit with It’s A Wonderful LifeIt’s a Wonderful Life in Film History In 2005, nearly 60 years after its release, It’s a Wonderful Life appeared in the #1 place on the A...
Onalee McGrawOct 21, 20196 minMen And Women In Love: The View From Classic HollywoodClaudette Colbert and Clark Gable in the 1930s and Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen in the 1960s present a vivid cultural memory for reflec...
Onalee McGrawOct 18, 20194 minRoman Holiday: Unveiling the Beauty of Authentic Love in a Culture of Radical Individualism“The beautiful stops us in our tracks, elects us, and then sends us on mission. This is true of something as simple as a beautiful book o...
Onalee McGrawOct 16, 20196 minNo Way Out (1950): Seeking Moral Truth For Life's Hard Questions“To understand the miracle of moral communities that grow beyond the bounds of kinship we must look not just at people, and not just at t...
Onalee McGrawOct 15, 201911 minMr. Smith Goes to Washington:Rebuilding Moral Community and Overcoming Group Identity Politics“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.” – John Adams Dire...
Onalee McGrawOct 11, 20195 minOn the Waterfront: Conscience, Solidarity and Overcoming Tribal Indifference“We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty” - G. K Chesterton Rebuilding the Bonds of Communi...
Onalee McGrawOct 9, 20192 min12 Angry Men; a conversation on things that matter most in a free society“It is nonsense to imagine that a free political community can survive without citizens who purse lives of virtue.” - James Madison 12 An...