The reviving of the American mind

How I learned that there is a fighter in me

Life

When I tell people that I’ve started kickboxing, they tend to think they’ve misheard

Emily Rhodes

The Games impose such a burden on their host cities that only a few countries are capable of staging them

The Spectator

The hugely controversial Olympic boxing bout between Angela Carini and Imane Khelif lasted just forty-six seconds

Jawad Iqbal

In Headshot, fighting is shown to be an essential part of what it is to be a girl, an undeniable, animal part of femininity

Emily Rhodes

Sports

MMA has overtaken the sport in the public mind

Kevin Cook

Internet
January 7, 2024
The depressing world of influencers
Exposing your life to the mob is the only thing that seems to work
Max Jeffery
Science & Tech
March 28, 2023
Did Ernest Hemingway have CTE?
His suicide remains one of literary history’s mysteries
Kevin Cook
Internet
December 1, 2020
Jake Paul, the Great White Nope
The YouTuber makes the most of the outrage economy
Ben Sixsmith
April 29, 2020
What’s the point of boxing?
It’s an inefficient form of combat with a long history
Simon Barnes
February 27, 2020
Is it time to consign VAR to Room 101?
The offside rule was introduced to stop goal-hanging, not to measure the amount some nostril hair was the wrong side of the line
Roger Alton
December 8, 2019
Anthony Joshua and the brutality of Saudi Arabia
It seems almost laughable now to hope seriously for sport to allow questions of morality to inform decisions about how best to make money
Damian Reilly
Books
December 5, 2019
Britain’s boxing Jews
The Fighting Jew: The Life and Times of Daniel Mendoza, Champion Boxer by Wynn Wheldon reviewed
James Evans
Books
February 3, 2018
Boxing not so clever
For Horace Hopper, the half-breed protagonist of Willy Vlautin’s bleak new novel, essential truths come slowly, and usually too late to do him any good. Abandoned by his Native American mother and Irish American father, he has exiled himself from the only people who love him, an elderly couple on a sheep ranch in deepest … Read more
John R. MacArthur