Red Dawn’s Conflicted Christian-Pagan Heroism and the Need for Chivalry
At its worst and best, Red Dawn challenges us to think about how we see war, masculinity, and honor.

At its worst and best, Red Dawn challenges us to think about how we see war, masculinity, and honor.

The franchise offers a strange meditation on modern conceptions of masculinity, and how those have evolved in the past thirty-five years.

When we talk about toxic masculinity, this is what we mean: the mindset calling men to the worldly honor of physical dominance, at the expense of humility and grace.
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