Excellence wins. How Four Seasons Minneapolis hits it out of the park.

Against the backdrop of short-term rental fever and the searing trauma of the 2020 riots, the great American hotel endures, offering us a template for American renewal.

As I sit poolside at the gorgeous Four Seasons Minneapolis watching supremely geeky guys courting preposterously comely Nordic princesses, I am struck by the enduring miracle of a professionally run hotel. The Four Seasons is the apex predator of hotel chains. They have clearly studied what is consistently annoying in the competition: gauche, inapprop…