The American Spectator was kind enough to publish my essay, “The Northman and the Truth,” on Sunday.

I’ve been waiting all my life for a good Viking movie. One with a plot that’s not laughable, with historically authentic costumes and sets. The Northman is that movie at last. I could nitpick about this and that, but by and large they did a good job of delivering a reasonably authentic film that commands respect as a work of art.

Still, it’s not the movie I wanted.

Read it all here.