Hoodie Withdrawal: How Bill Belichick’s Exit Signals the End of an American Soft-Power Dynasty
Bill Belichick, the NFL’s hoodie-clad Machiavelli, has finally vacated the New England Patriots’ throne room after twenty-four seasons, six rings, and enough surveillance footage to make the NSA blush. To the average Boston barfly, this is sports-page melodrama. To the rest of the planet, it is a miniature of how empires collapse: first the satellites…
