What Are Captain America's Politics?
June 27, 2018 · Web Only, culture, Pop Culture
An excerpt from Superhero Ethics.
Political Theorist & Pop Culture Analyst
Travis Smith
2 articles 2012–2018
Travis Smith is a political scientist who contributed essays to The Weekly Standard exploring the political and philosophical dimensions of superhero culture. His pieces examined figures like Batman, Spider-Man, and Captain America through the lens of political thought.
Batman v. Spider-Man
December 31, 2012 · Pop Culture, Features, Magazine
Jonathan V. Last penned a paean to the Batman earlier this year in The Weekly Standard, making the case for understanding the Caped Crusader as the hero of the modern liberal order against illiberal threats, including and especially those that emerge from within modernity itself (“A One-Man…