How to Kill a Brand | Cracker Barrel

Cultural commentary on the Cracker Barrel Rebrand debacle and what it means for the American right.

Aug 22 • 

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February 2025

Christianity and the Body Count Problem, Part II:

Why ‘He Gets Us’ Fails, Taylor Swift Threatens, and Anthropology Holds the Key to Christianity’s Future

Feb 21 • 

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January 2025

How to Kill A Brand: Angel Studios

Pleasing Everyone, Failing Everyone: The Angel Studios Story

Jan 4 • 

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December 2024

Christianity and the Body Count Problem I.

How our data leads to terrible strategies, and why studying fertility rates is the answer.

Dec 30, 2024 • 

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Death and Light in the Winter Solstice

Meditations on Christmas and the Return of the King

Dec 25, 2024 • 

Marcellino D'Ambrosio

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September 2024

Generational Warfare

What Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Zoomers need to understand about each other to avert the apocalypse.

Sep 14, 2024 • 

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August 2024

What are you scared of? A bit of cancelation never hurt anybody.

Why do I write costly words without a pseudonym... and do I have a death wish?

Aug 23, 2024 • 

Marcellino D'Ambrosio

26

6

Marketing When All The Platforms Hate You | An XX-XY Case Study

You cannot build non-woke brands the same way the woke do.

Aug 3, 2024 • 

Marcellino D'Ambrosio

11

2

July 2024

Black Swans Accelerate

Keeping your head in a world you know not

Jul 24, 2024 • 

Marcellino D'Ambrosio

7

2

Why You Need Enemies | Vivek, BuzzFeed, and Cuckservatism

Vivek Ramiswamy's laudable attempt to pull an Elon on the world's worst media company.

Jul 3, 2024 • 

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3

June 2024

Dressed for Battle

Alex Ledezia’s noteworthy achievement in founding a brand philosophy

Published on Clubroom Conversations • Jun 17, 2024

Breaking the first rule | My fight club story

My masculine initiation and our revolt against chestless Catholicism.

Jun 14, 2024 • 

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