‘We look at the repentant Ebenezer and think: C’est moi!’
Roger Rosenblatt at The New York Times
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has “continued to speak to modern readers, offering moral lessons that have only grown more relevant over the decades,” says Roger Rosenblatt. Ebenezer Scrooge, whose “sole concern is his own material enrichment,” has such enduring appeal “because in many ways, he is us.” We are all capable of “selfishness and greed,” but “so too are we capable of fantastic generosity and selflessness,” Rosenblatt says. “Dickens understood this.”
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‘From Washington to Hollywood, the gaslighting never seems to end’
Nicole Russell at USA Today
Actor Blake Lively has sued “It Ends With Us” director Justin Baldoni. “Lively alleges that Baldoni sexually harassed her during filming, then launched a sophisticated smear campaign to cover it up,” says Nicole Russell. And “if the lawsuit’s allegations are true, I also fell victim to the smear campaign’s manipulations.” In the entertainment industry, “like in the world of politics, we are constantly told what to think about the personalities involved,” though they “trick us into believing that we thought of it ourselves.”