Josh vs the News: How The Odyssey Broke the Internet

The way culture-war ideologues have hijacked The Odyssey reveals how social media ruins everything. As go the arguments about the film, so go our conversations about fairness, gender, race and immigration. And so go our elections.

Josh recounts the online sh**storm, and draws a long bow from Homer to Christopher Nolan to how civilisations like ours collapse.

Read Josh’s column in the Australian Financial Review here:

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/culture-war-ideologues-have-hijacked-christopher-nolan-s-odyssey-20260720-p60gpr

and David French’s NYT column here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/opinion/odyssey-christopher-nolan-greek-gods.html
Oh, and go back and watch “Just Josh: The Woke Catastrophe of Snow White” here:

https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com/p/just-josh-the-woke-catastrophe-of?utm_source=publication-search