Dirtbag Billionaire: A Global Field Guide to the New Gilded Age’s Anti-Hero By the time you finish this paragraph, another hoodie-clad centi-millionaire will have declared himself a “dirtbag billionaire” on a podcast recorded from the cargo hold of his Gulfstream. The phrase—equal parts self-deprecating marketing stunt and accurate character assessment—has already achieved the rare linguistic…
PARIS – Somewhere between the croissants and the contempt, another piece of paper has fluttered out of the Jeffrey Epstein file and landed, like a soiled feather, at Donald Trump’s expensively shod feet. The “Trump-Epstein letter” – a single page, undated, signed with the unmistakable Sharpie scrawl of the former US president – has triggered…
Harvard, that venerable brick-and-ivy ATM for the ruling class, has lately become the planet’s most expensive piñata. From Brasília boardrooms to Bangalore coffee shops, the university is now cited as shorthand for a global elite that can’t quite decide whether it’s enlightened or simply entitled. When the Supreme Court clipped its affirmative-action wings last June,…
Courtney Wild and the Global Epidemic of Disposable People By Marcello Vanzi, International Correspondent, Dave’s Locker PARIS—If you squint through the diesel haze drifting off the Boulevard Périphérique, Courtney Wild’s story looks almost Parisian: a woman reduced to a headline, a case file, a cautionary tale. Yet the same plot points—powerful men, silenced women, and…
