Jules Boykoff

Athletes first is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as preeminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in What Are the Olympics For? While the world's attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on their screens, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply troubling: athletes are increasingly...

Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained—although often subtle and difficult to observe—suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, The Suppression of Dissent explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the...