Alright, listen up, internet denizens! If you’ve been living under a rock (or just scrolling past the news), you might have missed the fact that Smith & Wesson is suddenly trending harder than a viral TikTok dance. But why, you ask? Well, grab your popcorn, because we’re about to dive into the cultural context, social…
Rachel Scott: How One American Teenager’s Murder Became a Global Parable About Bullets, Brands, and Badly-Behaved Nations By Our Correspondent in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Between the Hague and a Shopping Mall Let us begin, as the world now insists all stories must, with the disclaimer: Rachel Joy Scott was not a geopolitical strategist, a…
Charleston, South Carolina—population 137,000, median age 35.8, median home price $390,000—added one more grim statistic on the night of 17 June 2015: nine black parishioners murdered during Bible study by a 21-year-old white nationalist who wore his bowl-cut like a defiant middle finger to modernity. Dylann Roof, international observers noted with the weary shrug of…
When the NFL’s Washington Commanders dispatched Brian Robinson Jr. to the field last autumn, the event registered somewhere between a blip and a shrug on most global seismographs. After all, the planet was busy: the yen was in freefall, Shanghai’s lockdown drones were serenading citizens with “Stay Inside” in three-part harmony, and a British prime…
