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...TIDE TURNS...
Coming from Alabama, I felt there was no room for my post-90s Braves, my six-year Iron Bowl-drought Alabama Crimson Tide, my Jim Haslett-era Saints, or my total apathy towards...
...magical thing began happening this year: my teams started to be good again. Sure, the Braves are still slogging it out with the Mets at the bottom of the NL East, but the Crimson Tide and the Saints proved they were the best of the best...
Europe, in particular, has faced difficulties this year. Caught in the rising tide of anti-Muslim hysteria—a product of a dysfunctional immigration system and a chronic failure to assimilate new immigrants—normally mild-mannered Switzerland passed a measure banning minarets, a law we passionately decried. We feel that this legislation is discriminatory against an embattled minority and only further alienates, and thus radicalizes, European Muslims...
...many ways, it is too late to turn the tide on this trend entirely. No worldwide mandate could restrain the cheers of spectators. Yet we must allow ourselves to be swept away by something, or we shackle ourselves to the degrees of separation between pure enjoyment and irony. Anyone who feels even a modicum of outrage should make a personal commitment to lengthen our cultural attention span and let powerful performances speak for themselves. For there is an important difference between choosing how you want to experience an event and preventing yourself from experiencing it at all. Every...