My friend John is my everyday-life hero of this summer, but the real star in his tale is Little League Baseball, as a stand-in for all those local, community-based endeavors that are prototypical exemplars of American life.
And, to give away the ending, yes, consider this a paean to Edmund Burke’s idea (amplified by Alexis de Tocqueville) of the importance of the “little platoons” of private and nonpolitical civic life.
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