Let This Be the Final Word on Culture War Feuding
Excerpt: Critics have called the film a classic, and the online rabble-rousers, egged on by Elon Musk, who dismissed the film over so-called woke choices — like the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and the transgender actor Elliot Page as the warrior Sinon — have all pretty much shut up, or been shut up by the film’s overwhelming success.
Thankfully, a livelier and smarter debate has emerged in its place, one that’s a lot more relevant to Western society in the midst of an identity crisis.
When is war justified? What moral boundaries do we owe our enemies? What transgressions merit the ultimate punishment? And who, in the end, determines civilization’s common set of values?