Category: Jesse Owens

Saviors & Dishwashers: Start With the Dishes and You Can Be Both

That line from satirist P.J. O’Rourke in “All the Trouble in the World” serves as an apt metaphor for the 2022 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where high-ranking government officials and elites gathered to discuss climate change. Thousands of them arrived via high-polluting private jets, prompting an outcry from environmentalists. Here, I suppose,…


Luz Long’s Olympic Silver Auctioned for Nearly $500,000

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.—The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $488,000, a sum the auction house said was a record price for a publicly sold second-place prize. Long walked arm in arm through the stadium with…