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Encyclopedia > Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer is an American political journalist and the current editor of The New Republic. Before joining The New Republic, Foer was a frequent contributor to the online magazine Slate. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Spin, U.S. News & World Report, Lingua Franca, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, New York and Foreign Policy. In 2004 he published his first book, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see the disambiguation section. ... Slate. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. ... The Washington Post is the largest and oldest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ... Spin is a music magazine that reports on all the music that rocks. Founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... Lingua franca, literally Frankish language in Italian, was originally a mixed language consisting largely of Italian plus a vocabulary drawn from Turkish, Persian, French, Greek and Arabic and used for communication throughout the Middle East. ... February 1862 edition of The Atlantic Monthly, with The Battle Hymn of the Republic on the front page. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with a worldwide average daily circulation of more than 2. ... New York Magazine was one of the first of the so-called lifestyle magazines. ... For political interaction among states, see foreign policy. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Foer is older brother to novelist Jonathan Safran Foer and freelance science journalist Joshua Foer. He currently lives in Washington D.C. Jonathan Safran Foer Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) is a Jewish-American writer who lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, with his wife, novelist Nicole Krauss, and their dog, George. ...


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Team Spirit (washingtonpost.com) (1028 words)
Franklin Foer, armed with a terrific idea, took six months off from his job as a staff writer at the New Republic to tour the soccer capitals of the world.
Foer argues that the gruesome antisocial fan behavior that occurs when soccer is at its worst is counterbalanced in other places where the sport plays a role in creating a more humane order.
Foer reports that many of the younger celebrants were women, some of whom danced with uncovered heads.
Boston.com / A&E / Books / Goal Diggers: Franklin Foer sees the widespread passion for soccer as a reflection of ... (854 words)
The title of Franklin Foer's ''How Soccer Explains the World" is unabashed hype and the thesis is so anemic that it can hardly stand up to scrutiny, but the prose is lively and the vignettes are memorable.
What Foer demonstrates, with a good deal of verve, is that the fans' behavior varies even more than the players', from the brutal hooliganism of Belgrade's Ultra Bad Boys to the considerably more civilized antagonisms of FC Barcelona's Catalan nationalists.
Foer begins with Red Star Belgrade, the Serbian team whose brutal fans were led by the late Zeljko Raznatovic (better known as ''Arkan").
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