Combat sports fans were treated to a semblance of normalcy in the form of live Ultimate Fighting Championship events, broadcast out of … More
Month: May 2020
Opinion: The Especially Cruel Fate of ‘El Cucuy’
There was a lot at stake when the Ultimate Fighting Championship touched down in Jacksonville, Florida, for UFC 249. For one, the … More
Opinion: UFC 249 a Test of UFC Exceptionalism
The Ultimate Fighting Championship on Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida, will end the near two-month hiatus from live events that was forced upon … More
Democracy, with all its Shortcomings, is Still Worth Defending
Astra Taylor’s book ‘Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss it When it’s Gone’ (Verso, 2019) is, at its core, … More
Demand the Future: COVID-19 and the Economics of Opportunity
Crises don’t break societies, they reveal what’s already broken, and the global pandemic that has resulted from the COVID-19 virus … More
Re-Writing MMA’s Script Part 2: Agents of Doom
I started this series—which aims to put MMA’s seemingly intractable problems under the microscope—with a discussion of how the fighters on … More
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