Don’t Let Thanksgiving Be Squeezed Out of the Calendar

Near the end of Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s puzzling 2020 time-travel actioner, the protagonists execute what they call a “temporal pincer movement” against their enemies. In the world of the movie, people can move both forward and backward through time. So the forces of good attack from both chronological directions, hoping to surround their enemy in the timestream.

Something similar is happening in America today. The target is not an enemy but one of our greatest holidays. And it may disappear entirely if we don’t fight for its rightful place on the calendar.