What ‘Snow White’ Has to Teach Us About Politics, Romance, and Civilization

This story resounds with truth, beauty, and goodness. Consequently, it has some lessons and warnings for us even today.
What ‘Snow White’ Has to Teach Us About Politics, Romance, and Civilization
A statue of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs owned by Michael Jackson is seen on display in Beverly Hills, Calif., on April 13, 2009. Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images
Jeff Minick
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Walt Disney’s 1937 “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” rightly remains one of the most amazing U.S. films ever made.
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.