Gordon Marino

1 month ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Gordon Marino

The plaintive clanging of the round keeper’s bell in a silent arena is the boxing equivalent of a twenty-one-gun salute. Recently, the bell rang ten times in honor of the two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman. As a reporter who once covered the small boxing beat for The Wall Street Journal, I was privileged to enjoy numerous conversations with the “virtuoso of violence” who spread love and peace as easily as he flung feed to the chickens on his Texas farm.

Feb 18, 2024 | unherd.com | Gordon Marino

hegelMafiaNew JerseySocietyThe GodfatherThe SopranosUS As an Italian-American teen growing up in the Sopranoland of New Jersey, I dreamed of getting involved in the Mob. It was the paisan equivalent of being attracted to thug life, to living dangerously and not taking orders from anyone. Living on the Jersey Shore, in a vacation spot that emptied out after Labor Day, my partners in petty crime and I would break into summer homes, and go for the fridge, the beer, the hard liquor.

Feb 18, 2024 | staging.unherd.com | Gordon Marino

hegelMafiaNew JerseySocietyThe GodfatherThe SopranosUS As an Italian-American teen growing up in the Sopranoland of New Jersey, I dreamed of getting involved in the Mob.

Nov 2, 2023 | iai.tv | Gordon Marino |Netta Weinstein |Karen Simecek

Talk of a loneliness epidemic has pathologized time spent outside of social interactions. In doing so, we have forgotten about the importance and benefits of solitude. Dr Netta Weinstein calls for a new understanding of solitude as different from loneliness, and its importance to health and creativity. We tend to pathologize solitude. It’s easy to do, because we often confuse the idea of ‘solitude’ with that of ‘loneliness’. These conflations are not new.

Jun 7, 2023 | iai.tv | Gordon Marino