Oliver Lue for In Defence of Marxism: All told, costs to governments are estimated to be at least $82 million per game, though even that is likely an underestimate. While governments are trying to sell the huge costs of hosting the World Cup by promising $1 billion in tourist spending, as Jules Boykoff, a professor of politics and […]
Tom Ley for Defector: Game 4 of the NBA Finals has me feeling like one of those Kansas creationists who point to a bacterial flagellum and start shouting about the presence of God in the creation of life. How else could something this unlikely, this beautiful, this fate-altering have happened? The Knicks won, 107-106, after […]
Tom Ley, in his piece There’s No Hiding From The Spurs: Oklahoma City lost 22 combined games in the regular season and playoffs, and eight of those came at the hands of the Spurs. The Thunder are so good that people were practically throwing parades for the Nuggets and Pacers last season just for taking […]