Advantage joy: Teenage US Open tennis champ vs. world’s woes
The pandemic. Afghanistan. Superpower tensions. America’s bitter partisanship ...
All of it – for at least a few hours last weekend – was pushed aside by an uplifting sense of wonder and joy, which, even in today’s world, demonstrated the power to unite.
That a sports event provided this catalyst may not be that surprising. Back in the 1960s, no less a figure than Earl Warren, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, quipped that he liked to read his morning newspaper from back to front.
