Americans Reject MAGA Meanness as ‘Superman’ Soars

Americans reject MAGA meanness as ‘Superman’ soars

Over the last few days, millions of Americans have gone to the movie theater to watch James Gunn’s new “Superman,” making it the No. 1 movie in the United States. The movie’s success is another humiliating loss for the MAGA movement, which campaigned...

‘Truth, Justice, and the American Way’ No Longer: The End of Superman

I’ll happily leave commentary on the quality of the new Superman movie to our film experts here at American Spectator, Lou Aguilar and Bruce Bawer. I haven’t seen it, and I have no intention of seeing it. Life’s too short, and I have better things to do than waste several hours watching warmed-over superhero fare. But I grew up on Superman in the 1950s — yes, I’m old — watching the TV show, reading the comics, and, as a grown-up, I was enticed i…

Superman: Truth, Justice, and Kicking the KKK’s Butt!

In the 1940s, Superman had already punched Hitler in the jaw and drop-kicked some fascism out of the atmosphere. So when he needed a new villain to laser-eye into oblivion, along came the worst costume party in history: the Ku Klux Klan. Enter Stetson Kennedy: a real-life badass who infiltrated the Klan without heat vision or the ability to fly. With a notebook full of racist nonsense, he handed the writers of the Adventures of Superman radio sh…