My Experience Counts, Well, A Lot! Jul.02 2010 by Tom Swift
Leon Wieseletier writes in the current issue of The New Republic:
“There are transformative events, but not many; and the frequent insistence upon unprecedentedness of one’s own time is evidence only of excitability. There is no need of breaking news for the purposes of arriving at one’s fundamental beliefs. The study of history should suffice. It [...]


Chief Bender's Burden won the 2009 Seymour Medal, which recognizes the year's best work of baseball history.
