Spencer Shrader’s 59-Yard Kick: How One American Foot Sent Shockwaves Through Global Capitalism
Spencer Shrader and the Global Art of Missing the Point From a windowless bar in Brussels—where the beer is cold, the Wi-Fi is tepid, and the jukebox thinks “Wonderwall” is still a fresh idea—a television flickers with highlights of yet another American kicker drilling a 59-yard field goal. The patrons, a polyglot mix of Eurocrats…