Alex Massie Alex Massie

The Greatest Game of All

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Today, being perhaps the best day of the year*, is a good moment to consider Ross Douthat’s assertion that John Rawls was right. We do not speak of philosophy, of course, but of something much more important: sport. More specifically, Rawls’ belief that “baseball is the best of all games.”

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