So I'm in Aspen this week. One of the big things here, obviously, is new ideas (It is a "Ideas Festival.") On opening night I actually ended presenting a short version of Will Leitch's idea "Players Own The Game," which is in the current issue of the magazine.
Yesterday I got to sit down and talk with Felix Salmon about why the notion that the image of the overpayed under-achieving athlete ain't what it used to be.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power.