Planet Seacrest: How One Man’s Smile Became the World’s Most Stable Currency
Ryan Seacrest and the Manufacture of Global Ambivalence By Correspondent-at-Large, Dave’s Locker Somewhere over the mid-Atlantic, at 2:14 a.m. GMT, Ryan Seacrest is probably smiling. Not because he’s awake—he is, thanks to a proprietary blend of cold brew and contractual obligation—but because that smile has become a sort of soft-power export, like corn subsidies or…