A Dog in the Fight

William Davies: Am I a fan?, 18 May 2023

A Fan’s Life: The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat 
by Paul Campos.
Chicago, 176 pp., £15, September 2022, 978 0 226 82348 5
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... culture in general, stopped being perceived as a threat. Tempany emphasises the importance of the Taylor Report into Hillsborough, published in 1990, which led to all-seater stadiums and made football a safer, more ‘family-friendly’ experience. But the broader ideological terrain had already been set by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan: socialism and ...

‘You think our country’s so innocent?’

Adam Shatz: Polarised States of America, 1 December 2022

... the Trumpists in Congress feel emboldened by victory, and are already throwing up challengers to Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Speaker of the House. While McCarthy in the House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate might like nothing better than to dissociate themselves from Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and other ...

Prejudice Rules

LRB Contributors: After Roe v. Wade, 21 July 2022

... to my mind – ‘had sex’.We might write of reproductive freedom, of justice, what Astra Taylor writes of democracy: it may not exist, but ‘we’ll miss it when it’s gone.’ Well, some will (if the polls are right – but also, fuck polls); some won’t. This will be fractiously, violently contended in coming years, as it has been for ...