How a Rust-Belt Cannon Duel Explains the Entire Planet’s Identity Crisis
Ypsilanti, Michigan—While the planet’s attention ricochets between Gaza, the South China Sea, and whatever Elon has tweeted before breakfast, two universities separated by 120 kilometers of potholed interstate are staging their own cold skirmish. Eastern Michigan versus Central Michigan is not, on the face of it, the stuff of United Nations briefings. Yet if you…