Derek Silva is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at King’s University College at Western University. He is the co-author of The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, December 2024) and co-host (with Johanna Mellis) of The End of Sport podcast.
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Democrats Don't Need a Coach, They Need a Teacher
The choice to campaign as "Coach" Walz may be as tactically bankrupt as it is morally so: if Americans truly want an American football coach, isn’t that the "you're fired" persona Trump already embodies?
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva
WE NEED TO BE UNITED IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM AND REPRESSION
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