Woke entertainers find patriotism tough

Published January 30, 2025 11:00pm ET



Something strange is happening in American media entertainment: Patriotism appears increasingly back in vogue.

Recent years have seen the soaring box office success of Top Gun: Maverick (another movie is in the works) and streaming conquest of Amazon‘s violent but unashamedly patriotic series Reacher. But new patriotic additions hint that this isn’t just a blip on the radar.

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