Today I launched the new Thinking About Sports podcast! Listen to me and my co-cost Ian Connolly evaluate Trump’s status as a Sports President as compared to other world leaders who have also made sports a part of their policy platforms or personal identities. We discuss former UK Prime Minister John Major, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the late North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il. Points of discussion include sports as a vehicle for culture wars and financial corruption, the NCAA, Putin's lifelong sports journey, and some dubious golf scores.

Watch on Youtube or listen through various podcast distributors.

Special thanks to Oliviana Marie for composing all of the beautiful music!

I’ve been working on this a while. This will be a space for long-form explorations in a conversational format, which I think is a better fit for some topics than a newsletter. When my research spirals outside of the scope I’d originally planned and the manuscript ends up a couple thousand words longer, audio is just an easier sell for most people. This definitely doesn’t mean I’ll stop publishing writing on here, just that I’m being more intentional with how I package my pieces.