Hotline Interviews Dick Polman, Jeff Schapiro

Dick Polman is a national political columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He writes a Sunday print column, and a daily column on his “America Debate” blog. He’s also on the full-time contemporary writing faculty at the Univ. of PA, as “writer in residence.” …

Where’s your hometown? What was it like growing up there?

Longmeadow, Massachusetts, an all-white suburb where you were considered weird if you didn’t attend the Saturday high school football game.