Performing America’s Soul: The NFL, the National Anthem, and the Power of Cultural Institutions
12 min readJun 5, 2018
“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect.” — Dorian Gray
“I’m sorry, I thought this was America.” — Randy Marsh
After two years of hoping the controversy would simply go away, on May 23rd 2018, the NFL…
