National Basketball Association (NBA) commissioner Adam Silver is among those rarest of things: a political-science major making a lot of money. A lot of money — around $8 million a year, in fact. There's not a single congressional staffer or journalist or operative with that same degree who isn't jealous of Silver's financial success. There's also not, for those who've read Silver's recent interview with Time, a single one who's not haunted by the...