Franklin Foer (Author of How Soccer Explains the World)

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Franklin Foer

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in Washington, D.C., The United States

July 20, 1974

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Franklin Foer was the editor of The New Republic (2006-10, 2012-14)and has written for Slate , New York magazine., and The Atlantic.
He has published several nonfitction books dealing with sports, technology, and globalism. Foer, who lives in Washington, D.C., is older brother of novelist Jonathan Safran Foer and freelance journalist Joshua Foer.

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	How Soccer Explains the World 3.79 avg rating — 13,081 ratings — published 2004 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech 3.62 avg rating — 2,228 ratings — published 2017 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future 3.87 avg rating — 1,230 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup by Matt Weiland (Editor), Franklin Foer (Afterword), Sean Wilsey (Editor) 3.70 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America 3.69 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame by Franklin Foer (Editor), Marc Tracy (Editor) 3.52 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Promise of American Life: Updated Edition by Herbert David Croly, Franklin Foer 3.53 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1909 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Which Side of History?: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives by James P. Steyer (Editor, Introduction), Cheri Vandenheuvel (Narrator), Kyle Chappel (Narrator) 3.79 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Election 2008: A Voter's Guide (A New Republic Book) 3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Religion, Culture, and International Conflict: A Conversation by Michael Cromartie (Editor), David Bloom (Contributor), David Brooks (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.”
― Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World

tags: community, football-clubs, religion, soccer

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“Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: 鈥淲hat information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
― Franklin Foer, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

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“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices鈥攚hat we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.”
― Franklin Foer, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

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