Amid the increasingly high profile afforded by both celebrity culture and social media, actors are now the most visible purveyors of moral thought. On a platform like last Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, an industry that allowed Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey to flourish stepped up on a soapbox to tout the #metoo movement. So in a thought-provoking op-ed for The National Review, American Enterprise Institute fellow Jonah Goldberg examines why a profession historically dismissed as seedy has in recent times been elevated to almost messianic status… and why it doesn’t deserve that promotion.
“I mean, I like Tom Hanks, too,” writes Goldberg. “But I’m not sure starring in Turner & Hooch (one of my favorite movies) bestows oracular moral authority.”
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