senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Like a lot of megalomaniacs and aspiring autocrats, Gianni Infantino looked at Donald Trump and thought "I could do that." It turns out it's harder than it looks. newrepublic.com/article/2137...
What Gianni Infantino Learned From Donald TrumpThe FIFA president’s plan to sell off a stake of the World Cup suggests he’s emulating his hero.newrepublic.comI wrote about the latest idiocy from Gianni Infantino newrepublic.com/article/2137...
What Gianni Infantino Learned From Donald TrumpThe FIFA president’s plan to sell off a stake of the World Cup suggests he’s emulating his hero.newrepublic.comjust nearly threw my phone across the room before I realized that in British English to “table” something means the opposite. incredibly dumb!
SamUK vs US English is fun
For the final Golden Goal newsletter (for now!), I wrote about why this World Cup was all about America for me goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...
Goodbye to the 2026 World CupThe Golden Goal team pays tribute to the latest installment of the world’s greatest sporting eventgoldengoalmag.substack.comin times like these, all you can really say is "lmao"
Oliver DarcyScoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.
this post suggests there is "no good reason" for publishers not to fact check serious works of nonfiction, even though doing so would probably cause the nonfiction publishing industry to collapse welovehistory.substack.com/p/a-historia...
A Historian Lost A Job, a Book Deal, and Her Publisher Pulled Her Book. Isn’t it time Publishers Audit History Books?Fact-checking should not be optionalwelovehistory.substack.comDreamWorks Pictures presents Robert Lowell's Life Studies
Jesse HawkenStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now