Phillies Magic Number: When a Baseball Stat Becomes the Planet’s Faint Pulse By the time most of the world had finished doom-scrolling news of yet another currency free-fall and a renegade super-typhoon doing donuts in the Pacific, a quiet, almost quaint phrase began trending on English-language timelines from Lagos to Lahore: “Phillies magic number.” For…
Kazakhstan versus Wales: a fixture that sounds like the punch-line to an obscure geopolitical joke, yet here we are, pretending it matters. On paper it’s a UEFA Nations League group game; in practice it is a morality play staged for the benefit of arm-chair Brahmins from Bishkek to Bangor, all of whom have Wi-Fi strong…
Lotto Texas: A Lone-Star Fever Dream in an Age of Global Discontent By Our Senior Correspondent, Somewhere between Houston and Helsinki AUSTIN—Every Wednesday and Saturday night, while most of the planet is doom-scrolling through war-crime footage or calculating how many euros are left before civilization’s next rolling blackout, the good people of Texas gather around…
