Gangs of New York: A Story for Today

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 12:12 p.m.

History is often boring an irrelevant to people. Which is a shame, because it is often repeated in our own day. The Gangs of New York may appear, at first, to be a movie about a time completely unlike our own, but the themes and values of the 1860s are the same ones driving our political and social lives today.