Tim Cook: The World’s Nicest Warden of a Very Expensive Panopticon By Our Correspondent in Geneva—where surveillance cameras outnumber fondue forks, yet no one seems to notice. It is a truth universally acknowledged that no one has ever asked, “What does Tim Cook think about the future of humanity?”—yet here we are, hanging on every…
The Barclays Center, that rust-colored coliseum squatting at the crossroads of Flatbush and Atlantic, has never really been about basketball. From the moment its weathered-steel carapace rose above Brooklyn’s brownstone quilt, it was clear the structure had higher ambitions than merely housing a mediocre NBA franchise. Today, as ticket prices outpace inflation in most emerging-market…
In the grand bazaar of twenty-first-century capitalism, where every human impulse is priced, packaged, and resold at a 400-percent markup, Ticketmaster stands as a cathedral of exquisite disappointment. From São Paulo to Seoul, Dublin to Dubai, the same ritual unfolds: credit-card numbers are tendered like votive offerings, CAPTCHA boxes are genuflected before, and, in the…
Brandon Aiyuk and the Geopolitics of a Jersey Tantrum By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk PARIS—Somewhere between the Seine and a bistro that still pretends cigarettes are a food group, the name Brandon Aiyuk is being whispered like a dirty secret. To the French, who treat labor strikes as a…
Bryce Underwood, the 16-year-old quarterback who has just committed to the University of Michigan for 2025, is already being hailed as the LeBron James of American football—a comparison that, like most things American, is half hyperbole and half prophecy. While the rest of the planet sorts out minor inconveniences like climate refugees and supply-chain famines,…
Jeff Bezos, the man who turned a modest Seattle garage into a global empire so vast it makes the East India Company look like a weekend lemonade stand, is still very much the gravitational center of Planet Capitalism—even after stepping down as CEO of Amazon. From the vantage point of a world that can’t decide…
