Meditations in an Emergency

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Sep 04, 2021
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This week got away from me for various reasons—I’m writing this in bed, knocked down by a summer head cold—so, no micro-essay today.

But I did have a big new piece run in The Quarterly on Wednesday, that I’ve been working on for nearly a year. I’ll let my editor’s summary do the heavy lifting:

Americans dominated men’s tennis for decades. Then, nearly 20…

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