Monica Quartermaine: The Fictional Soap-Opera Queen Guiding Real-World Diplomacy
The Quartermaine Doctrine: How a Fictional Matriarch Became the UN’s Unofficial Moral Compass By Dave’s International Bureau of Implausible Soft-Power Assets GENEVA—While the Security Council bickered over grain corridors and submarine cables last week, an emergency Zoom convened by the WHO quietly added a new slide to pandemic-preparedness briefings: “What Would Monica Quartermaine Do?” The…