The Best of Reason: Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East?

The spread of Ultimate Frisbee testifies to a kind of Western soft power in the Middle East, one far friendlier than bombs or bullets.

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The Best of Reason: Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East?

This week's featured article is "Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East?" by Jack Pearson and Matthew Petti.

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought," by CTRL S, and "Sunsettling," by Man With Roses

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[VULGAR MADMAN]

If this is the “best of reason” maybe you guys should find another career.

[Rick James]

This is worthy of the East of the 405, south of the 210 journolisming awards, I must say.

[Vesicant]

Can I get some of what you're ingesting? That's some Owsley-level hallucination going on there.

[AT]

If this is your best, you should quit.

[Rick James]

I suspect Ultimate Frisbee will be considerably less effective in world-changing impact than the $100 laptop was.

[Minadin]

So the short answer is NO.

The long answer is that I'm considering cancelling my subscription, if this is the type of thoughtless bullshit content I can expect.

Let's use some intramural US college sportsball to bring lasting peace to the middle east? Are you serious? Does that sound like 'Reason' as a suggestion? Does it appear to you to be actually serious? Go Away. Let's get some adults in the room.

[Commenter_XY]

There is no palestine, Pearson and Petti. Get out a fucking map.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

They were all pretty peaceful before soccer ruined them

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Didn't listen. Is the content as brain-dead as the headline?