Author: Alex MacMillan
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Show and Empire’s New Strategy
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t revolutionary or un-American. It showed how U.S. power absorbs difference without conceding autonomy.
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Amber Glenn and the Limits of Visibility Politics
Amber Glenn and visibility politics show how inclusion at the center of empire produces legitimacy while leaving deportation, war, and repression intact.
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The Olympics and the Performance of Power
Amber Glenn’s Olympic politics remark shows how the US converts dissent into proof of its own openness.
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The IOC Banned South Africa. Then It Quoted Mandela.
Mandela Olympic opening ceremony: the IOC excluded South Africa for 28 years over apartheid, then used Mandela’s words as ceremonial peace language.
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How Super Bowl LX Amplifies Zionist Political Messaging
How Super Bowl LX is being used by an NFL owner to advance Zionist framing of antisemitism through ads, power, and media access.
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The Olympics and the Collapse of Neutrality
As Israel wages genocide in Gaza, the 2026 Games expose how sport rewards power, silences victims, and collapses when crowds refuse consent.
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British Olympian Posts Anti-ICE Message on Olympic Opening Day
The response to Kenworthy’s protest post highlights how Olympic rules interpret political speech and where neutrality may be applied unevenly.
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Team Israel, World Baseball, and the Politics of Silence
How the 2026 World Baseball Classic exposes sport’s neutrality, diaspora representation, and the erasure of Palestinian athletes killed during Israel’s genocide.
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Bad Bunny, the Super Bowl, and America’s Halftime Split
Bad Bunny’s historic booking sparked backlash, rival streams, and celebration, turning the Super Bowl halftime show into a frontline of America’s culture war.
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Sports as Infrastructure: How Games Power Capital and State
How modern sports bind emotion, media, infrastructure, and nationalism into a single system that monetizes loyalty while shaping politics and power
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Why the Blue Jackets Killed the Bee
How Columbus went from a Civil War bee mascot to a corporate star crest, and why the Blue Jackets’ original identity had way more personality.
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