Superheroes and Modernity
by Peter J. LeithartSuperheroic responses to modernity. Continue Reading »
Superheroic responses to modernity. Continue Reading »
What do our superheroes tell us about our hopes and anxieties? Continue Reading »
God so loved the world that he gave his only son. God so loved me that he has given me three sons. And last month, they discovered superheroes. Not a moment too soon, it turns out, as apparently overnight what I used to think of as our respectable middle-class home has become an alarming hive of after-school crime (or as my boys call it, “trouble”). So they fearlessly answer the call every afternoon, bounding around the house and the yard with hand-towel capes safety-pinned around their necks… . Continue Reading »
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