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Mises on human action, predicting the future, and who will win the World Cup Football tournament (1966)
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Ludwig von Mises
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2010-06-21 |
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Macaulay and Bunyan on the evils of swearing and playing hockey on Sunday (1830)
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Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
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2010-03-01 |
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John Hobson argues that sport plays an important part in British imperialism for all classes and that the “spirit of adventure” is now played out in the colonies (1902)
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John A. Hobson
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2010-02-07 |
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The Earl of Shaftesbury relates the story of an unscrupulous glazier who gives the rowdy town youths a football so they will smash windows in the street and thus drum up business (1737)
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury
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2010-02-04 |
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Nisbet on how violent, contact sports like football redirect people’s energies away from war (1988)
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Robert A. Nisbet
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2010-02-03 |
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Frederick Pollock argues that a violent assault on the football field is not an actionable tort because it is part of the activities of a voluntarily agreed to association of adults (1895)
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Sir Frederick Pollock
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2010-02-01 |
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Herbert Spencer worries that the violence and brutalities of football will make it that much harder to create a society in which individual rights will be mutually respected (1879)
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Herbert Spencer
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2010-01-25 |