Leslie Odom Jr. and the Weaponized Charm of a Globalized Smoothie You may know Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr’s velvet-voiced nemesis or as the guy whose Christmas album makes department-store Santas feel slightly inadequate. But step back from the Hamilton-branded snow globe and the guy starts looking less like a Broadway souvenir and more…
Elizabeth Day: The Accidental International Holiday That Tells Us Everything About Ourselves If you had told a London literary agent in 2018 that her name would eventually be invoked by small-business owners in Manila, podcast addicts in São Paulo, and that one guy in Reykjavik who still thinks irony is a personality, she would probably…
The Daily Record: Humanity’s Obsessive Love Affair with Counting Itself PARIS—In the predawn hush outside the Hôtel de Ville, a municipal clerk named Odette prints the daily record of Parisian births, deaths, marriages, parking tickets, and—since last month—TikTok views. She stamps each sheet with the same bronze seal Napoleon commissioned for his own birthday announcements,…
The Gerd Müller Trophy: A Golden Boot in a World That Can’t Stop Shooting Itself By Dave’s Locker International Desk PARIS—While the planet busies itself perfecting newer, more efficient ways to melt, invade, or algorithmically impoverish one another, a modest hunk of brass quietly reminds us that at least someone still knows where the goal…
Matthew McConaughey: How a Shirtless Texan Became the World’s Reluctant Prophet of Chill By the time the sun rose over Ulaanbaatar last Tuesday, Matthew McConaughey had already been awake for six hours, sipping yerba mate on a Zoom call with Mongolian throat-singers about “conscious commerce.” The man once paid to bang bongos naked on Venice…
Donnarumma: The Last Line of Defense in a World That Refuses to Be Saved By Our Sardonic Correspondent, Somewhere Between Paris and Purgatory When Gianluigi Donnarumma stretches his 6-foot-5 frame across the goalmouth for Paris Saint-Germain these days, he’s not just blocking shots; he’s performing the nightly miracle of a man who still believes the…
Athletic Club 2 – 0 Alavés: A Basque Derby in the Twilight of the World San Mamés, Thursday night—while half the planet doom-scrolled its way through another 24-hour news cycle of melting ice caps and crypto scams, 46,000 souls wedged themselves into a cathedral of cracked concrete and throbbing larynxes to watch 22 millionaires boot…
