Thanks for writing a great book that literally changed my perspective on the Oscars. People should buy it!

One last thing about the censorious right: they've always lacked media literacy. They missed the clear messages from High Noon to Spartacus, and they still don't understand them to this day.

It also shouldn't be lost on people that, for example, the people on the Hollywood Blacklist never really recovered economically from their principled stand. Dalton Trumbo et al. lost something very real and unrecoverable by not naming names. They are heroes and their story is still quite sad.

Anyway, it shouldn't be lost on anyone that the same people who spent the last decade whining about so-called cancel culture are now trying to end the careers of anyone with even the slightest hint of connection to an idea they don't like. These people are - simply put - cowards. Always have been.

So, yes, the same people that are in a moral panic now about "woke" ideas infiltrating popular culture would have been against anything "anti-fascist" immediately after we saved the whole damn world from fascism. Which sort of begs a question about what it means if you're against anti-fascism.

One other thing the book shows is that far-right ghouls have always - ALWAYS - been afraid of and tried to control any idea that they think is even remotely "dangerous". In the 1950s, it was anti-Communist panic. Now, it is anti-woke/DEI/whatever. It's as pathetic as it is patronizing.

It's a trope to call people in Hollywood out of touch. And in some ways they are. But in others, Hollywood is actually more deeply in tune with what it takes to take on the capital class and get their share than anyone, like, west of Michigan.