Astros vs. Angels: A Cosmic Rivalry for an Age of Collapsing Empires By Our Man in the Dugout of Despair Somewhere between the 405 and the existential void, two baseball teams are locked in a feud that feels increasingly like a metaphor for the entire international order. On one side, the Houston Astros—freshly rebranded from…
The Sherri Shepherd Doctrine: How One American Comedian Accidentally Explained the Collapse of Western Civilization to the Rest of the World By the time Sherri Shepherd’s latest hot-mic moment ricocheted from a Burbank soundstage to a Lagos group-chat, then on to a Berlin think-tank Slack channel, the planet had already completed its usual three-step grief…
Bolton vs Wigan: A Lancashire Derby for the End of Days By Our Correspondent, filing from a hotel bar that still thinks fax machines are cutting-edge Somewhere between the eighth replay of an Icelandic yogurt commercial and the second half-kickoff, it dawned on me that Bolton versus Wigan Athletic is less a football match and…
Baxter Dury: The World’s Most Reluctant Global Icon Sings From the Gutter Up by “International” Marvin, still jet-lagged in Terminal 3 Last Tuesday, while the planet’s stock markets performed their usual interpretive dance of cardiac arrest, a man who looks like he’s been personally wronged by daylight released a new record in a basement somewhere…
