Tony Earls: The Everyman Who Became a Global Morality Play By the time Tony Earls’ name ping-ponged across the world’s news tickers—Tokyo at dawn, Lagos at lunch, São Paulo at midnight—it had already been chewed up by every algorithm that feeds on human misery. To most of the planet he is simply “the guy who…
The Twelve (or Six, or Three, or Whatever the Budget Allows) A Global Dispatch on the Curious Species Known as the Juror PARIS—On paper, a juror is democracy’s polite fiction: an ordinary citizen yanked from the grocery queue and asked to play Solomon for the price of free parking and stale sandwiches. In practice, the…
Law and Order: A Global Magic Show Where the Handcuffs Sparkle and the Audience Applauds the Illusion ————————————————————————– In the grand amphitheater of geopolitics, “law and order” is the headline act that never gets old—mostly because the script keeps changing mid-performance. From the marble corridors of The Hague to the fluorescent-lit holding cells of Lagos,…
