It popped up on my Facebook feed, a postcard from America’s past. It was from a spring evening at the ballpark, Candlestick Park in San Francisco, 32 years ago, April 13, a video from the Giants’ home ...

Bicentennial Minutes” modeled a kind of mass-culture unity we’re unlikely to match for the country’s next big birthday.

"I say let’s get rid of the racist-written, purloined, unsingable war-song-question and replace it with the lovely hymn about ...