"Nolan’s Burkean interpretation of The Odyssey, with its emphasis on traditional moral orders and..."

“Nolan’s Burkean interpretation of The Odyssey, with its emphasis on traditional moral orders and social obligations, casts our present as a moment of ideological and social rupture. At the end of history, politicians devoid of decorum, respectability, and empathy turn toward a politics of cruel avarice and bitterness. We are all now the people of Ithaca, watching our social order collapse into…