“Play Your Sport” Is Bad Advice, and Vance Should Know Better
JD Vance told Olympic athletes to “play your sport” instead of commenting on America’s political climate. Marcus Hart on why that’s a talking point, not a principle — and why sports have never once been separate from politics.
America’s 250th Birthday Split the Country Instead of Uniting It. That’s Not New – It’s the Point We Keep Missing.
The America 250 celebrations were supposed to be a unifying moment. Instead they became another Rorschach test for a divided country, and the divide itself is more American than the unity we were promised.