A short video today for the sports fans in the room:
Muhammad Ali
When “a sixty-minute episode featuring an actor, a novelist, and a champion boxer might attract an audience of nearly 10 million”
Over at Literary Review of Canada James Brooke-Smith reflects on the lost art of public conversation. Here is a taste of his piece, “Where’s Johnny?“ Executives at ABC tried to scotch the first episode of The Dick Cavett Show before it was […]
Kareem Abdul Jabbar on Bill Russell
Here is Kareem at his Substack page: I always knew I wanted to be active in civil rights, but I didn’t always know how I would do that. I had attended some anti-war and civil rights protests rallies while at […]
Episode 98: “Conversions: Spiritual and Political”
What do Sammy Davis Jr., Muhammad Ali, Clare Booth Luce, Whitaker Chambers, and Charles Colson all have in common? They all had very public religious conversions. In this episode, historian Rebecca Davis joins us to talk about her new book Public […]