Getting Older Doesn’t Have to Mean Getting Meaner
The popular “grumpy old man” narrative trope is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. But should it be?

The popular “grumpy old man” narrative trope is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. But should it be?

Ted Lasso and James Garfield take the hard road of gentleness in a world that assumes the soft touch is synonymous with failure.

In a time when winning has become the ultimate morality, and the struggle to gain and maintain power has turned otherwise absolute standards of goodness into subjective opinion in the eyes of so many, we all need more of what Ted Lasso is dishing out.
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