Not Just a Game

Jaden, Matthew, and Jack discuss politics in sports. Was it a mistake to let Qatar host the FIFA World Cup? Did Wimbledon make the right call in banning the participation of Russians, including star players Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev? Does activism belong in sports, and can it succeed? Are sports a force for unity and social progress, or division and conflict?

All Ad Hoc episodes can be found here and on Spotify.

Matthew Anzarouth

+ postsBio

Senior World Editor

• Matthew Anzarouth

  Justice By Means of Democracy: A Conversation with Danielle Allen
• Matthew Anzarouth

  Good Arguments with Bo Seo
• Matthew Anzarouth

  Picture Perfect: A Conversation with Professor Adatto
• Matthew Anzarouth

  A Conversation with Matthew Yglesias
• Matthew Anzarouth

  Guilty Admissions: Litigating Legacy
• Matthew Anzarouth

  A Canadian Province Experiments with Hard Drugs
• Matthew Anzarouth

  Balancing Act: The Fairness Doctrine Revisited
• Matthew Anzarouth

  Highly Regulated
• Matthew Anzarouth

  Constitutional Conundrums: A Conversation with Jill Lepore
• Matthew Anzarouth

  Code of Ethics and Ethics of Code
• Matthew Anzarouth

  The Wall Street Journal Dismisses Canada’s Gun Problem
• Matthew Anzarouth

  The Misguided Criticism of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Judicial Philosophy
• Matthew Anzarouth

  Does Judicial Supremacy Limit Social Progress? A Comparative Analysis of Abortion Rights in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
• Matthew Anzarouth

  Robots that Kill: The Case for Banning Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems