The latest episode of “Modern Age with Dan McCarthy” offers a change of pace: an examination of what the new Superman movie reveals about liberalism’s impoverished view of human excellence. The essay below expands on the podcast, which appears at the end.
Superman occupies a decisive place in American popular culture, for better or for worse. The character, who debuted in 1938, is usually credited as the first superhero, the beginning of a genre that now dominates not only comic books but Hollywood as well. In terms of mass culture, we’re living in the world Superman made.
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