Photo: William Ayers in Chicago Magazine, August 2001. About "events" in the 1960s, he said: "They provided for me a way of seeing the world that seemed so alive and so resonant that I can't escape it, no matter what I do."   

Here is this week's column about the new, three-way race between McCain, Obama, and Obama's Radicalism, which may be exemplified--if not at all limited to--his relationship with the grizzled radical above.

Further thoughts on Obama and Ayers (and Khalidi and Said) here; analysis on the New York Times whitewash of the relationship here.