In Defense of Strip Malls

If these commercial establishments offend your taste, don’t shop in them.

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Businesses in Miramar FL RK Center, Miramar, Fla., July 30, 2022.

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We are fast approaching the singularity of cultural discontent. The event horizon has been crossed, beyond which logic bends around an argument so impenetrable that its density is rivaled only by its arguer.

Take, for example, the following expression of general irritation that achieved that most odious of modern distinctions: “virality.”

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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