The U.S. is so devoted to its own version of the free market that Washington cannot build much-needed infrastructure because of a public aversion to state intervention.

For those who grew up in a PE era when even the most spontaneous match of tetherball was scrupulously tallied scoreless play seems downright radical.

It is, in fact, a very deliberate and self-conscious repudiation of that late romantic aesthetic that Yeats's early book, and even the cover of that early book, represents.