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There’s a story about Soviet audiences seeing The Grapes of Wrath, the 1940 American movie allowed into the Soviet Union because it showed Americans suffering extreme privation during the Great Depression. Stalin is said to have banned it after Soviet audiences were wowed by the fact that even the poorest Americans owned their own trucks.

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“The thing about good entertainment for adults is that it does not exclude the young — rather, it can show the young that there are wonders into which they can grow and that will help them to grow.”

-John Podhoretz

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I think [President Obama] does have an animus toward Israel, and I think that animus is causing him to act in ways that are damaging – not only to his own political position, but damaging to American national interests, and ultimately that goes to the question of Iran. It is in America’s national interest to prevent Iran from having a bomb. It is in Israel’s national interest. America and Israel have a common national interest here, but so does Egypt, so does Saudi Arabia, so does Austria and Hungary and Kosovo and India and the rest of the world.
-John Podhoretz