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Dec. 21, 2020 The journalist Anne Helen Petersen recently asked, on Twitter, for articles about the “long-term psychological effects” of the pandemic. She soon noticed that many of the replies were about the damage it was doing to children. Seeing this crystallized something I’d been dimly aware of. The strange politics of the coronavirus have created a taboo, at least in certain progressive circles, in talking too much about the emotional suffering wrought by nine months of purgatorial isolation. It’s easier to discuss what it’s doing to our kids, because we feel justified in tryin...

Winter Break begins. The kids have been more remote than not this year anyway, so maybe it won’t be a huge change. But, historically, the balance between wanting to do all the extra stuff with them while they’re home, but also wanting to do my normal work, is delicate. But, hey, if they twist my arm to play some extra VR the next couple weeks, who am I to argue? •   If you hated the extra-innings rule – runner starts on second base – I have some bad news for you. Another category of interested voices has come out in support of it (er, well, at least in terms of Jesse Rogers readin...

Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world's greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released. We live in a polarized, deeply divided nation, something that's obvious in our politics but also in the way we all individually experience the world. The internet, and social media, in particular, have splintered us from any collective, making any sort of universal appreciation of anything next to impossible. You see this constantly in the movies to...

Do right now. the average baseball salary had reached $1 million for the first time and now the average salary is 3.2 million. stay healthy and you're crazy rich. blow out your elbow and it's back to hoping your high school team needs a coach. >> this is what i don't understand, will. 50 years ago, pitchers would like go 17 innings and throw a one-hitter and they pitched longer. a lot of them pitched longer. now, they have got the pitch count on there. you get to a certain level, they pull them out. it seems like pitching less is not doing more for these guys. >> a couple of differences. on on...

Here with us now is contributing editor of "the new york" magazine the great will leitch. >> during the break, he said i didn't go to the great school of college for ten years. ik not be called the great. >> in the new issue, will writes about baseball, pitching injuries and his piece reads in part this. ever since money ball and baseball has just about everything figured out, the game is never been more closely studied or better understood and yet people have no clue how to keep pitchers from getting hurt. their health is a vital part of the game but arguably never more than it is today. a te...