Anthony Ballas
Organizer and PhD student in literature at Duke University; writer and podcaster whose work appears in outlets like Monthly Review, CounterPunch and Black Agenda Report, and co-author of the discussed article with Gerald Horne.
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Mar 7, 2026 • 1h 26min
Whiteness, Jake Paul, Boxing, & the Crisis of US Imperialism w/ Anthony Ballas
Anthony Ballas, organizer and Duke PhD student who writes on politics and culture, joins to connect boxing, race, and geopolitics. He traces historical racial panics in the sport, links early 20th-century imperialism to today’s spectacle, and dissects Jake Paul’s rise as cultural performance. Conversation pivots to soft power, settler-colonial identity play, and the risks of a declining U.S. empire.
