Titus Techera is the Distinguished Fellow in American Culture at Hillsdale College, International Program Coordinator at the Edmund Burke Foundation, a researcher in the European Center of Political Philosophy at Mathias Corvinus Collegium, and managing editor of the European Journal of Political Philosophy.
Posts by Titus Techera
May 25, 2026
Memorial Day was first instituted in the aftermath of the Civil War, to appease the suffering caused by the terrible bloodshed of that conflict, in which almost as many men died as in the wars of the 20th century combined.
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March 23, 2026
Chuck Norris has died at age 86, something considered impossible in the digital age, which includes “Chuck Norris Facts,” a litany of impossibilities that prove Norris is the greatest at almost everything.
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March 05, 2026
Chloé Zhao received four nominations and won two Oscars, Best Director and Best Picture, for
Nomadland (2020) and has since become the major female director in the English-speaking world. Her new movie,
Hamnet,
about William Shakespeare losing his son and (ostensibly) writing his most famous tragedy, has been nominated for eight awards.
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February 18, 2026
Most Oscar movies have no audience and few admirers and are instantly forgotten (name last year’s winner). One exception is
Marty Supreme, which has just received nine Oscar nominations. More surprising, it has already reached into the IMDb Top 250, at 238 and climbing (dedicated fanbase).
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January 22, 2026
Who’s going to win big at the Oscars? I know: Paul Thomas Anderson’s
One Battle After Another, its title taken from a statement published in 1969 by the revolutionary-terrorist organization the Weather Underground.
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December 31, 2025
A hundred years ago, Charlie Chaplin brought out
The Gold Rush, an incredibly famous and influential silent movie that has won the praise of countless artists since. Comedy on screen asserted its rights, as did artists.
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November 26, 2025
Barry Levinson was one of the most successful directors in America around 1990, when he made
Avalon, an immigrant Thanksgiving movie trying to sum up the transformation of the American family in the 20th century.
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April 16, 2025
Angel Studios is a rare enterprise in American film, trying to put together popularity, prestige, Christianity, and new media. They had a major hit with
Sound of Freedom (2023), then aimed for the Oscars with
Bonhoeffer (2024).
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March 26, 2025
One of the topics of the times is work-life balance. Should you work all the time, like Elon Musk? Should you embrace the workless life of social media influencers? To be middle class is a mix of the two.
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February 27, 2025
In 1930, Winston Churchill was heading into the worst part of his political career, doomed to criticize his party’s leadership on foreign affairs only to be ignored, marginalized, disdained. At the same time, he was fast approaching his greatest achievement as a writer, the biography of the ancestor who founded his family, John Churchill,
Marlborough: His Life and Times, which would occupy him throughout the decade we call “the wilderness years.”
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