WAVE THE FLAG: HOW SPORTS & PATRIOTISM LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING & LOVE EACH OTHER
Compulsory Patriotism: The National Anthem as Sports Ritual
October 12, 2020
R A Card grew up in Massachusetts and went to the University of Massachusetts and Harvard. He has wandered the country, hitchhiking, riding buses, hopping freight trains, and riding his bicycle from Massachusetts to Alaska. He has lived in Key West, Brooklyn, Pratt, Kansas, and Kona, Hawaii, and by the time he was twenty-four had visited all fifty states. His literary work has appeared in Alaska Magazine, The New England Journal of Public Policy, Omphalos Quarterly and numerous other publications. He is the author of several works of fiction and poetry, including Life of a Dead White Man and 52 Poems, Seven Sonnets.
Compulsory Patriotism: The National Anthem as Sports Ritual
In the spring of 2002, college art student Luke Helder set out to trace a Smiley Face pattern over the entire country.
“Very Fine People on Both Sides”
Between 1974 and 1976 Patricia Hearst, UC Berkeley student, scion of the prominent California Hearsts, became the most wanted fugitive in America.
A brief history of being young & adrift in 80s New York.
