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‘The Odyssey’ reminds us of the nightmare we are leaving for American children

The Founders created Congress to write the laws, but ordinary citizens fail to hold it accountable

By John C. Adams Fox News

Published August 15, 2026 7:00am EDT

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In Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," the most uncomfortable scenes aren't the cyclops or the shipwreck. They're the ones set at home.

Dozens of men have moved into Odysseus's palace on Ithaca. They slaughter his herds. They drain his wine. They lounge in his hall demanding his wife choose one of them, and every day they consume a little more of an estate none of them will ever own. Telemachus watches it happen. He is a boy. He has no standing, no army and no idea when — or whether — his father is coming back.

That is not a Bronze Age problem.

SEN RAND PAUL: MY PLAN WOULD FORCE CONGRESS TO STOP OVERSPENDING YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY

We will soon be over $40 trillion in national debt. I have spent my career as an mergers-and-acquisitions banker valuing what things are truly worth, and I can tell you what that number is: it is a claim on people who cannot yet vote — taxation without representation.

Matt Damon is Odysseus in "The Odyssey," written, produced and directed by Christopher Nolan. (Melinda Sue Gordon © Universal Studios. All Rights........

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