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Six months ago, the world’s wealthiest soccer clubs attempted to create a breakaway “Super League” in a cynical, if ultimately shambolic, attempt to restrict competition and line their already substantial pockets. The protests were instantaneous; there was chanting (though, to be fair, there always is), shirt burning, and signs. Some signs were furious, and some were funny, but one captured the zeitgeist: “Football: Created by the poor, stolen by the rich.” Initially unveiled in 2017 by Tunisian... Читать дальше...

The most recent dust-up over the debt ceiling can claim one unexpected victory: Somehow, what began as a pretty insular conversation among so-called Modern Monetary Theory advocates has percolated fully out into the mainstream. 

It’s becoming a pattern: Investigators of the January 6 mob attack on the Capitol announce a new set of subpoenas, further expanding their probe, and then Donald Trump and his allies resist the investigation more, setting up a possible constitutional crisis, someday, over Congress’s oversight powers.

Our nation is in the midst of a labor revolution. It’s a wonderful thing, and you may not be aware of it.

Roughly halfway through Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel, 15-year-old Perry Hildebrandt, pleasantly buzzed on gløgg at a local minister’s holiday party, confronts two men of faith with a difficult question: Is it possible to be truly good? Perry, an unusually intelligent teenager, has himself recently resolved to stop selling and consuming drugs and to be nicer to his older sister, Becky, but he worries that his efforts are ultimately self-serving. If he takes satisfaction in being a good brother... Читать дальше...

In victory, it’s advisable to be magnanimous. This sentiment, typically attributed to Winston Churchill (it’s in the frontispiece to his multivolume History of the Second World War), is understood to be a moral imperative, but it’s also a strategic one. Magnanimity in victory is strategically wise because, if you don’t act like you won, people may get the idea that you lost. Behaving magnanimously is a useful way to persuade people that you won—which is almost as important as the winning itself.

Anyone who speaks with Senator Cory Booker for more than 30 seconds can’t help but come to one conclusion: The man is an abiding optimist. In an increasingly rancorous Congress, the junior senator from New Jersey maintains a theory of governance focused on building coalitions and bridging divisions through interpersonal connections. It’s a vision that formed the backbone of his ultimately unsuccessful presidential campaign, and it continues to define how he approaches his work in the Senate, even... Читать дальше...

Throughout September, as the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow approached, The Wall Street Journal ran a series of opinion articles by Bjorn Lomborg, a notorious climate “skeptic” from Denmark who has downplayed the threat of global warming. The articles purported to offer readers “a better understanding of the true effects of climate change and the real costs of climate policy”—a corrective, in other words, to the liberal hysteria around the issue.