My colleague and friend Jack Kerwick, who I had the pleasure of interviewing for the DM podcast back in June, has written a riveting piece. For anyone who’s ever read Kerwick, that’s not really news. His writing is always thought-provoking, sometimes putting into words exactly what you felt but couldn’t quite articulate, and other times …
Historian Brion McClanahan uses a sports metaphor to explain the coarsening of dialog pervading our culture. His theory isn’t that we’re playing the same game but with different rules. Rather, it’s that the “left” is playing football – a fast-paced game with frequent rule changes – while the “right” dutifully plods along playing baseball, which (used …