The Hogwarts Diaspora: How a Cast of Child Wizards Grew Up to Run the World (or at Least Its Meme Cycle) By the time you finish this sentence, someone in Jakarta will have tattooed Daniel Radcliffe’s 2004 haircut on their calf, a São Paulo startup will have launched a Potter-themed fintech, and a Brussels think…
Drea de Matteo and the Weaponized Side-Hustle: How a Sopranos Star Became a Global Metaphor for 2024’s Gig-Economy Apocalypse By “Dave’s” Balkan Bureau Chief, fresh off a Ryanair redeye with nothing but duty-free slivovitz and regret If you had “Italian-American actress launches OnlyFans to pay medical bills and accidentally triggers worldwide debate on late-stage capitalism”…
In a world currently preoccupied with the slow-motion collapse of supply chains, the open-air theater of geopolitical brinkmanship, and the gentle background hum of climate catastrophe, one might be forgiven for forgetting that Dylan O’Brien is still alive and, apparently, thriving. Yet here we are, watching the 33-year-old American actor—once the accidental millennial face of…
Naomi Watts: A 21st-Century Export More Stable Than Most Currencies By Our Correspondent in a City That Used to Have Reliable Wi-Fi Every era gets the blonde it deserves. The 1950s gave us Grace Kelly, a Hitchcock ice-sculpture who retired into royalty—quaint, like cash that still clinked. The 1980s coughed up Madonna, a self-propelled IPO…
**The Bella Epoch: How a WWE Diva Became the Perfect Metaphor for Our Global Identity Crisis** In the grand theater of international affairs—where nuclear powers play chicken in the Taiwan Strait and central banks perform interpretive dance with inflation rates—it’s oddly fitting that Nikki Bella, a professional wrestler from Scottsdale, Arizona, has emerged as our…
