The Parks and Recreation star on “Buddy,” Farm Aid, and how a hippie like Willie became Ron Swanson’s favorite poet.Nick Offerman is a distinctly unique figure in contemporary popular culture. In and of itself, the fact that he wears a lot of hats—screen actor, touring comedian, author, activist, outdoorsman, philosophizer—does not set him apart. But the way he achieved that status, and what he does with it now, is singular. His breakthrough role was playing the solitary, anti-government, America Firster Ron Swanson on the old sitcom Parks and Recreation, which may be the single most beloved series of the peak TV era. But in his various works since the show’s close, in 2015, he’s made his way by somehow both leaning into and knocking down…
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