The immensely respectable and remarkably acute Acton Institute has fashioned a movie on the theme of freedom. It seems that the film will trace the conception of liberty through history, likely beginning with the Greco-Roman period and spending ample time on the crucial contributions of Christianity to the development (creation) of classically liberal civilizations.

Just as other films which do not binge in the gutters of moral and cultural relativism, and then purge as pan-deprecating, liberal indoctrination and anti-Western prejudice, the documentary will almost certainly attract the scorn and derision of the ideologically-elitist Hollywood and Indy film crowds. Diversity of ideas and thought was never on the ledger of liberal tolerance.

Of course, having Hollywood come out against a film (think The Passion of the Christ) might be somewhat akin to having the New York Times pan a candidate (ala John McCain). I recommend the film to all who are interested in the theory and history of freedom, and anxiously await its release.