Knives Out: A Global Affair in Which Everyone Is Guilty By Our Correspondent Who Has Already Checked the Silverware Drawer GENEVA—The phrase “knives out” once conjured up quaint English country houses, thunderclaps, and a Belgian sleuth fussing over egg-temperature. Today it is less parlour game and more planetary blood sport. From the South China Sea…
**When Beauty Meets Bluetooth: The Brooks Nader Incident and Our Global Panic Room** In a world where nuclear powers play chicken in the Taiwan Strait and glaciers perform disappearing acts faster than a magician’s assistant, humanity has collectively decided that the real international crisis worth our breathless attention is… a Sports Illustrated model’s misadventure with…
Twins vs Royals: The Eternal Cage Match Between Genetics and Genealogy By Our Correspondent in the Republic of Slightly Unhinged Democracies If you’ve spent any time on social media this week, you’ve seen the memes: a pair of identical toddlers in matching rompers squaring off against a pair of middle-aged heirs in identical navy suits,…
The planet is on fire, inflation is staging a renaissance, and yet a non-trivial slice of humanity spent last night refreshing a subreddit in Manila to find out whether a Brazilian yoga instructor betrayed a Scottish hairdresser inside a Bulgarian-set house they will never actually leave. Welcome, dear reader, to the global cottage industry of…
