The American Eagle Way to Defuse a Culture War
How a conservative consumer expert views the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad. Plus: The founders of the Ooni pizza oven look to expand.
American Eagle billboards in New York.
Photographer: Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesPolitical pros often consider August to be silly season, so it would seem the donnybrook over American Eagle jeans model Sydney Sweeney is right on time. Bloomberg Businessweek national correspondent Joshua Green has been covering conservative corporate culture for a while, though, and writes today about the stakes for companies. Plus: Ooni branches out beyond the pizza oven, and Mumbai apartments add all sorts of luxuries. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I certainly didn’t have “Sydney Sweeney culture war eruption” on my political bingo card for this summer. Yet here we are.