Post-Cold-War Culture

Brad Arnold, the Mississippi bar-band refugee who became the voice of every karaoke bar from Jakarta to Johannesburg, is not merely the frontman of 3 Doors Down—he is a living, breathing cautionary tale about what happens when post-Cold-War optimism collides with the algorithmic meat-grinder of the twenty-first century. Two decades ago, “Kryptonite” was the ringtone…