"Brown's greatness as an athlete and activist will matter in the victory hall of posterity, but not here, not now—not in this nightmare burlesque melodrama we're all trapped in. Michael Cohen matters. Paul Manafort matters. Robert Mueller preeminently matters. Jim Brown is a minor sideshow, an incidental noise-generator, in this high-stakes charade. To truly matter in the existential present, he'd need to repudiate Donald Trump and own up on the women he’s hurt, and no one's waiting around for that fairy tale to happen. But with Trump renewing his castigation of kneeling NFL players even as I type, imagine the impact if Brown told him to back off and let these grown men exercise their freedom of expression. A statement of solidarity from Jim Brown would defy Trump's rhino charge and earn Brown back some of the respect he's lost in the last year."
James Wolcott in The New York Review of Books reviews Dave Zirin's Jim Brown: Last Man Standing.
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