35. Ryan Zickgraf

The Carousel Podcast · Mar 1, 2023 · 1h 28m

Please welcome journalist Ryan Zickgraf to The Carousel. Zickgraf writes for Compact and Jacobin from a leftist perspective, and occupies the leftward fork of the horsehoe directly across from me, and from whence I came.I found him via his interesting NFL article in Compact, “It’s Not Your Grandaddy’s NFL,” which I see as a companion piece to my “The NFL’s Eggshell PR Problem.” We also share in common a background in city journalism, him with The Chicago Reader and WaPo as an Atlanta correspondent. He was cancelled(ish) from the Reader after a woke takeover.We talk about Perry Abbasi’s…