American rock-and-roll icon Bruce Springsteen released a new single this week, his first original material since 2020’s Letter to You. Inspired by the recent clashes in Minneapolis between federal immigration authorities and left-wing agitators,

Springsteen, of all artists, the one who’d held fast throughout his touring life to a fixed mantra, ‘No one gets left behind,’ had allowed himself to be at the caprice of Ticketmaster’s noxious ‘dynamic pricing’ model.