A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.