A reflection on Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and All in the Family.

“Ballot access” is like “free air.” In a decent country, shouldn’t we all have it?

Any decent political movement must be based in love and affection, else it curdles.

Bruce Springsteen’s album of American despair remains an arresting collection of stories by a literate and thoughtful depressive.

An inner dialogue on the Democratic underdog.

Kennan’s final, and most engagingly radical, enthusiasm? Independence for the state of Vermont.