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The message in Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ is clear

by Francis Wilkinson Country singer Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” is far from the worst agitprop ever to hit the American scene. But the song hunkered down in the trenches of the culture war this week, which seems to have been its destination all along. Cuss out a ...

Keep flagpoles out of the culture wars

Flagpoles are becoming the latest battlefield in the culture wars. Activists are fighting to get their banners onto public flagstaffs while keeping off those representing other groups or beliefs. The conflict is particularly heated this month, when the Pride flag celebrating LGBTQ ...

‘Bud Lighting’ won’t stop any time soon

by Jonah Goldberg A lot of conservatives are very excited about “Bud Lighting” — a freshly minted term for boycotting companies that cater to various “woke” causes, particularly transgender issues.   The term derives from the spectacular implosion of Bud Light in ...

Gov. DeSantis vs. Disney has a $1B price tag for Fla.

The Magic Kingdom made about $1 billion disappear in Florida on Thursday.  Amid an escalating feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Disney pulled a serious power move. The company canceled a massive office complex set for Orlando — development that was supposed to bring with it more ...

The day the book banners lost in Pennsylvania’s culture wars

by Will Bunch KUTZTOWN, Pa. — If you ban it, they will come.  For the better part of an hour last Saturday, dozens of teenagers and their parents snaked around the towering stacks of tomes inside Kutztown’s Firefly Books and sometimes spilled onto the sidewalks of this ...