Frank Cogliano
Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
- Things we don't need: a UK version of Saturday Night Live and a US version of Have I Got News for You.
- I had a conversation with a European friend, long resident in the US, who's a huge winter sports/Olympics fan. I said, "Americans are in for a shock. The Winter Olympics are going to bring home just how detested the US is at the moment." 1/
- They said, "No, NBC is the biggest funder of the IOC. The negative stuff will be edited or muted." It's going to be hard to ignore when US athletes are booed and jeered. 2/
- I usually skip the Olympics, the jingoism combined with sanctimony ("the Olympic movement") is too much for me. My Swedish/British/US family members love the games. /3