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Dan Chiasson

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Bernie’s Burlington Was an Experiment in Practical Socialism

When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, the spirit of socialism showed up in everything from snowplows to poetry.

by Dan Chiasson, Natasha Hakimi Zapata via Jacobin
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on May 21, 2026
Becoming Bernie

How a New Deal Brooklyn boyhood, and a certain Manhattan storefront, sent Senator Sanders to the Green Mountains that formed him.

by Dan Chiasson via Broadcast on February 5, 2026
Frost at Midnight

A new volume of Robert Frost’s letters finds him at the height of his artistic powers while suffering an almost unimaginable series of losses.

by Dan Chiasson via New York Review of Books
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on November 24, 2021
What Henry Adams Understood About History’s Breaking Points

He devoted a lifetime to studying America’s foundation, witnessed its near-dissolution, and uncannily anticipated its evolution.

by Dan Chiasson via The New Yorker
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on November 30, 2020

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People's Politician

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