• The Travel Sports Dilemma with Michael Brendan Dougherty

  • Jan 17 2025
  • Length: 42 mins
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The Travel Sports Dilemma with Michael Brendan Dougherty

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  • Why would any sane parent subject themselves to the high costs and grueling hours of travel sports teams for their kids?

    In this episode, Michael Brendan Dougherty, senior writer at National Review, joins to discuss his feature essay on the subject for our just-launched magazine, Commonplace. As a dance and travel baseball dad himself, he explains that these teams are often the only ways kids and parents today can form high-trust communities in an atomized world much different from the one Dougherty grew up in.

    He and Oren also talk about the conservative media universe more broadly, and how Commonplace can offer an alternative to the legacy publications resistant to the changing interests and priorities of ordinary Americans on the new right-of-center.

    Further Reading:

    • "In Defense of Travel Teams" by Michael Brendan Dougherty.
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