A scene from the 1946 movie It's a Wonderful Life.Classic movies are the ones that tell us essential truths about ourselves, and many of those films are ones we associate with Christmastime. Guest Commentator Burdett Loomis says that it's not much of a stretch to learn some essential truths about the challenges faced by others in one of the season's most beloved films.
Guest Commentator Burdett Loomis is a professor of political science at the University of Kansas.