Steven Spielberg, the man who taught the planet that extraterrestrials can be cuddly and that sharks have personal vendettas, turns seventy-eight this year. From the vantage point of a world that now binge-watches apocalypses on handheld rectangles, his career looks less like a mere filmography and more like a 50-year-long geopolitical weather report. Every time…
The Hogwarts Diaspora: How a Cast of Child Wizards Grew Up to Run the World (or at Least Its Meme Cycle) By the time you finish this sentence, someone in Jakarta will have tattooed Daniel Radcliffe’s 2004 haircut on their calf, a São Paulo startup will have launched a Potter-themed fintech, and a Brussels think…
Linkin Park and the Global Soundtrack of Managed Despair By Diego “Dust-to-Digital” Morales, Senior Correspondent, Somewhere Over the Pacific They say nostalgia is just grief with better marketing. If that’s true, Linkin Park is the platinum-certified grief counselor to a planet that never quite figured out adulthood. When the band’s surviving members announced a new…
