Sports

Race

“White Fragility” Gets Jackie Robinson’s Story Wrong

Robin DiAngelo’s best-selling book sells a misguided view of baseball integration to her readers and corporate clients. 

Peter Dreier

Arts in Society

Witnessing Grace

In ‘Be Holding,’ celebrated poet Ross Gay interweaves the legacy of one of basketball’s greatest moments with a meditation on Black resilience.

Eric Morales-Franceschini

Arts in Society, Politics

The Ideology of the Olympics

The Olympics have long tried to obscure the political nature of sport.

Robert L. Kehoe III

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

Football on the Corporate Campus

Big-money college sports suffer a lot of criticism, but they are symptomatic of larger shifts in the moral economy of higher education.

Robert L. Kehoe III

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

Boxing's Labor Problem

Boxing, longtime domain of the blue-collar fighter, has suddenly become the playground of the one percent.

Joel Calahan

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

My Body Is a Cage

In Thrown, Kerry Howley explores the fleeting ecstasy of a brutal sport.

Jenny Hendrix

Arts in Society

The Ethics of Being a Fan

Sports are an excellent tool for thinking through tricky ethical and political questions.

Andrew Mayersohn

Arts in Society

World Cup 2014—the Green Edition

The correlation between football and environmental rankings.

Alisa Zomer

Terms of Enhancement

At Grantland, Andrew Sharp has written perhaps the smartest column I’ve yet seen on

Simon Waxman

Arts in Society

Hosts

Playing football in the Soloman Islands. 

Matthew Fishbane

Arts in Society

Men’s Tennis Is More Interesting Than Women’s

But It Doesn’t Have To Be

David V. Johnson

Arts in Society, Politics

The Holy Game

Big spectacle games are made for professions of faith, and holy language is exactly the right fit.

Jason Anthony