The New Fatherhood

The New Fatherhood

Blend It Like Beckham

Chasing career highs, and the never-ending search for balance

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Kevin Maguire
Dec 14, 2023
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Did you catch Beckham? If you haven’t been locked out of your parent’s Netflix account yet, get it on your holiday watch list. Even if you’re not a fan of football—or, given the ever-increasing number of US dads reading this, “soccer”1—it’s essential viewing.

But you can’t trust my opinion. This entire essay comes to you with an “unreliable narrator” cave…

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