The Debate and Our Gaping Disparity of Attention

How professional sports steal time from the issues that matter most, and why our political discourse has become so vacuous

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“… I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I’m listening to is a discussion of sports…. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it’s plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated detai…