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Columbia County, Ark. — There’s no sign of it here in Magnolia, Ark., but the boycott season is upon us, and graduates of Princeton and Bryn Mawr are demanding “justice” from Wal-Mart, which is not in the justice business but in the groceries, clothes, and car-batteries business. It is easy to scoff, but I am ready to start taking the social-justice warriors’ insipid rhetoric seriously — as soon as two things happen: First, I want to hear from the Wal-Mart-protesting riffraff a definition of “justice” that is something that does not boil down to “I Get What I Want, Irrespective...

There are few things that Connecticut can bring to the table when discussions of American exceptionalism come to the forefront. A notable exception could be insurance, but now there is also a connection to time and its boundless second hands, the very stroke that registers as the heartbeat of the American tradition. Connecticut however, does have a rich history of ties to American exceptionalism. During the American Revolution, firearms and ammunition were produced there. Even today, there is still a glimmer of that American manufacturing with Groton as a center of submarine building. As defense spending has declined, so has...