The Triumph Of Nashville

My article in American Conservative

I’m now a published author at the American Conservative. My essay examines the appeal of Nashville and how it stands as the cultural alternative to woke:

Music City’s popularity illustrates a nation moving beyond the extremism of woke, but not embracing “counter-revolution.” Nashville isn’t reviving some Anglo-Saxon past or building new Confederate monuments. In fact, it’s removing traces of the Old South to be a more attractive place to the American middle-class. Nashville is simply a place where Americans of all stripes can shop, work, and party without left-wing busybodies or controversial traditions getting in the way. Residents don’t dwell on the glories of the past or devote themselves to “social justice” in the Tennessee town. They merely want to pursue commercial opportunities without intrusion. It’s the city too busy to be woke.

Read the rest here.