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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg cover image

The Great Couch Detectives

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

CHAPTER

The Godfather and the American Dream

I think that's sort of the defense of mob movies to a certain extent is you have to show the world outside of conventional morality and rule of law. The slant in these cases is looking at human nature from really, sometimes not even through humans, but through very skewed or unlikely perspectives. So yeah, another way of putting it is if I can don my pretentious former English professor cap, Emily Dickinson's line, tell the truth, but tell it slant.

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