BINGE THINKING

SCANDAL

On guillotines, victims, mobs, and power

Knox McCoy

Mar 19, 2026

Let’s begin, as all serious cultural critiques should, with Cracker Barrel.

Last year, the beloved porch-themed eatery of our ancestors attempted a visual pivot, which was responded to as if it were a South American military coup. Very quickly, the rebrand was split down the usual culture war lines of how it was lib-coded and proof of the woke mind virus…