From 9/11 to Ted Lasso

Warm hugs of nice after the slow, torturous death of irony.

In the weeks after 9/11, everyone who mattered was telling us that irony was dead. The line is usually attributed to Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair—otherwise best known for being a sissy, for his bad food restaurants, and for the fact that his V.F. Oscar party is no longer “hot”—but the same sentiment was trotted out by the essayist Roger Rosenblatt, and…