Originally published November 6, 2023
“If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.”—Casablanca, 1942
“When a man becomes weak enough to accept a bribe, he’s already a dying man.”—Gilda, 1946
The Dying Men
I was watching a Glenn Ford-Rita Hayworth film noir last night, and a mobster explained that when a man becomes weak enough to commit his first c…

