Leave John Wayne and his airport alone — for now

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It’s too late to blacklist John Wayne, and it’s too illegal to ban his films, so critics are going after the only emblem they can: John Wayne Airport.

After Twitter exploded with vitriol toward the actor over a rediscovered 1971 interview with Playboy, people began calling for a boycott of Wayne’s films. Because that’s not enforceable, and righteous rage loves company, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik argued that “It’s time to take John Wayne’s name off the Orange County airport.”

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