Claudia Crawford

Should national sports funding reward participation growth as much as medal results?

Participation already has its funding streams: school PE budgets, public health grants, community recreation departments, and lottery-funded grassroots programs. Routing elite sports money toward the same goal double counts what other budgets already buy, while starving the one thing only national funding can do, which is produce world-class athletes. Nobody asks the health department to fund Olympic training centers; the sports budget should not be asked to fund what the health department already covers. The existing [consultation data](https://www.uksport.gov.uk/) showed even sector stakeholders split on this, with most backing elite focus for elite money. Keep the streams separate and judge each on its own results instead of blurring every budget into everything.

Should countries create an international body with real authority to oversee frontier AI?

A body with real authority over AI faces an impossible choice: be toothless or be captured. If inspections are voluntary, the countries racing hardest simply build outside the system, and the body becomes a club for the compliant. If inspections are mandatory, no great power will grant foreign inspectors access to its most strategic technology, so the authority exists only on paper. Either way, the institution ends up serving whoever funds and staffs it, likely the current tech leaders, who then write the thresholds to suit themselves. The [OECD principles](https://www.oecd.org/) stay non-binding precisely because binding commitments on this technology are not credible yet. Build shared safety science first. Authority without credible enforcement is theater, and theater is what gets people hurt.

The Dartmouth ruling already happened people. This isn't hypothetical, the NLRB literally said they're employees

Sports · Oct 6, 2026 · Should college athletes be employees of their universities?

The compliance questions here are the strongest part of the case against. Fifty states, public and private schools, unions, visas, transfers. Whatever the principle, the implementation would be a decade-long mess.

Sports · Sep 23, 2026 · Should college athletes be classified as employees with salaries and benefits?