More than the game

In writing about sports, Frank Deford ’61 tells stories about life

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

The office in Frank Deford ’61’s suburban Connecticut home seems fitting for one of sports journalism’s most decorated writers. Handsome bronze horses — awards for stories about thoroughbred racing — double as bookends at the front of a wide wooden desk...Read more

Hating Uncle Sam

A Princeton class dissects the causes of anti-Americanism and what can be done about them.

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

Why do they hate us? Americans have asked that question about the world at least since the beginning of the Cold War, sometimes plaintively and sometimes peevishly, but never more pointedly than since the opening of the war in Iraq.   “Why do they hate us?”...Read more