Bruce Springsteen, Morgan Wallen and the myth of unity
During the Super Bowl on Sunday night, a squinting, papery-voiced Bruce Springsteen took part in what Boss-ologists have said was his first television commercial: a two-minute Jeep spot, called "The Middle," in which the singer, clearly inspired by the long-awaited end of the Trump era, waxes poetic about the philosophical importance of the middle as he tools around a small town in Kansas that sits at the geographical center of the mainland United States.
"It's no secret," he says over the plaintive whine of a steel guitar. "The middle has been a hard place to get to lately — between red and blue, between servant and citizen, between our
