Global Eye on the Oval: How a Baffling Australian Ball Game Quietly Shapes the World
Melbourne’s Docklands Stadium—known, with the same straight-faced nationalism that names a 24-hour convenience store “The Great Australian Dream”—hosts the 2024 AFL Grand Final this Saturday. While the locals call it “the biggest day on the national calendar,” the rest of the planet, preoccupied with wars, bond yields, and the slow-motion TikTok suicide of attention spans,…