Dave Zirin

sportswriter, editor

Dave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation Magazine, their first sports editor in 160 years of existence. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sport, including most recently "The Kaepernick Effect". He is the co-producer, writer and narrator of the new documentary, "Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL". Zirin has also worked as an advisor for filmmakers and documentarians such as Ang Lee and Ken Burns. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin has been a frequent guest on ESPN, MSNBC, and CNN. He also hosts The Nation’s Edge of Sports podcast and cohosts The Collison on WPFW. His new book is a biography of the historian Howard Zinn called "The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn".