On Sunday, the cinnamon-raisin bagel was the hole in the center of a debate that shook the political world, threatening for a moment to eclipse the tweets of another certain native New Yorker living in the White House.

The point, says Mr. Remes, is to leave the cinnamon-raisin bagel—with or without lox—alone. “People should get to eat everything they want to eat,” he says.

Politicians and their radical beliefs.