Author Mark Edmunson shares memories of a teacher who profoundly influenced his life. Edmunson first met Frank Lears when he was a student at Medford (Massachusetts) High School in the 1960s. Coming of age during the turbulent 60s, Ed...

"I was at a point of crossing in my life then—a liminal moment, as the anthropologists like to say. I was trying to figure out what the world was about and what my place in it was going to be. And somehow I got the idea that t...

Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its menFootball teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But fo...