The Corner

World Cup Watch

Ghana just beat the United States at the World Cup. Downside: The Americans are done, and their overall performance in the tournament was disappointing. Upside: Beating a bunch of countries, rather than tying them or losing to them and getting an early ticket home, wouldn’t have helped global attitudes toward us. Upside #2: Any Americans who were distracted by the World Cup may now return their attentions to the better and more American sport of baseball.

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
Exit mobile version