Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Groundhog Day scores. Primary Menu Jonah Goldberg is a National Review contributing editor. @JonahDispatch. More in Culture. Make Birds Great Again Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. Follow Jonah Goldberg on X February 12, 2009 10:13 PM For those who want to read a more expansive explanation of my love for Groundhog Day, you can read my cover story from almost exactly four Jonah Goldberg. Fri, February 2, 2024 at 9:59 PM UTC. 17 min read. From the G-File on The Dispatch. It’s Groundhog Day! But with all that in mind, let’s look at Groundhog Day for a moment National Review scribe Jonah Goldberg, for one, noted the film’s expansive resonance with the Catholic concept of purgatory, the Hindu and Buddhist takes on reincarnation, and the Jewish understanding of mitzvahs, or good works. I’d suggest Groundhog Day can also be read as a fable of Christian sanctification. It’s Groundhog Day! Though, for most of you, it won’t be by the time you read this—unless today repeats itself on an endlessly recurring loop. Jonah Goldberg Senior Fellow and Asness After a time with this new attitude, he emerges as a master piano player, skilled ice sculptor, generous philanthropist, and all around great guy. After a day of doing every possible thing to improve the lives of the people in the town, he receives the praise and admiration of the town at its annual (for him nightly) Groundhog Day dance party. More from Jonah Goldberg. What’s Wrong with Congress. Indeed, “Groundhog Day” has become shorthand for (translating nicely) “same stuff, different day.” Troops in Iraq regularly use that Groundhog Day is a self-referential celebration of the power of filmmaking to “snap its fingers” with reality (24). The conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg sees in it, perhaps unsurprisingly, a conservative critique of “postmodern man” (36). Writing in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Richard Almond interprets Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large of National Review Online Groundhog Day is “a stunning allegory of moral, intellectual, and even religious excellence in the face of postmodern decay, a sort of Christian-Aristotelian Pilgrim’s Progress for those lost in the contemporary cosmos.”—Michael Foley, professor of theology at Notre Dame I watched it again last night. I may have seen it more times than Bill Murray repeated GHD. It got me thinking. I think it may be one of the best, most intelligent and deeply layered films of the that Groundhog Day is a self-referential celebration of the power of filmmaking to “snap its fingers” with reality (24). The conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg sees in it, perhaps unsurprisingly, a conservative critique of “postmodern man” (36). Writing in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Richard Almond interprets (Here’s a post I did a couple of years ago on Groundhog’s Day. Just be thankful I don’t post it over and over and over and over again!) One of my favorite films from a while ago—I haven’t seen it now for about 7 years or so—is Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray. As a freshman undergrad, it was required viewing for the course “Religion, Ethics, and Film.” People are usually Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large of National Review Online Groundhog Day is “a stunning allegory of moral, intellectual, and even religious excellence in the face of postmodern decay, a sort of Christian-Aristotelian Pilgrim’s Progress for those lost in the contemporary cosmos.”—Michael Foley, professor of theology at Notre Dame 'Groundhog Day' is becoming an increasingly popular way to bemoan Washington's fruitless repetition. Jonah Goldberg analyzed what makes the movie so great. He concluded that its funniness I’m writing a piece on why I think Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day was one of the best films of the last few decades and will undoubtedly hold up for generations to come. Jonah Goldberg is a In fact, Jonah Goldberg of National Review hails this film as one of the most important movies of the last forty years. Groundhog Day stars Bill Murray as Phil Connors, a narcissistic weatherman for Channel 9 Pittsburgh, whose delusions of grandeur are expressed by his self-given nickname, “the talent.” As the movie opens, we find Phil very Every year around this time, Shannen Coffin solemnly marches into his back yard and burns a copy of my seminal cover essay on the movie, nay, film Groundhog Day. For reasons too complex and disturb From a reader: Jonah: Thought I’d bludgeon you with the obvious. Groundhog Day is set in Western Pennsylvania, the townspeople it depicts are the bitter clingers, the same folks who look set to I’m writing a piece on why I think Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day was one of the best films of the last few decades and will undoubtedly hold up for generations to come. This is something we’ve
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