Padres Game: America’s Pastime as Global Gladiator Spectacle By Our Correspondent Who’s Seen Cricket Riots and Calcio Fistfights PETCO Park, San Diego—While the rest of the planet debates grain-export corridors and which despot has the shiniest nuclear toys, 42,067 sunburned souls here have arranged themselves into a neat capitalist mandala to watch grown men in…
Mariners Score: One Run, Nine Innings, and the Entire Planet Holding Its Breath By Dave’s Locker Global Correspondent SEATTLE, EARTH—Somewhere between the Boeing fuselage graveyard and the world’s last functional espresso machine, the Seattle Mariners eked out a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays last night. The box score reads like a haiku: three…
Steelers: The Global Supply Chain’s Rust-Belt Avengers By Diego “Rust Never Sleeps” Morales, International Desk, Dave’s Locker PARIS—On a rain-slick boulevard outside the Chinese embassy, a delegation of French steelworkers is politely waving baguettes at a line of stone-faced diplomats. Their placards read “Acier = Avenir,” which roughly translates to “Steel = Future” and, more…
When the First Temple fell, the rabbis didn’t immediately issue a press release about resilience—they just kept the lights on, one thirteen-year-old boy at a time. Fast-forward 2,600 years and the barmitzvah strand, that slender coil of tzitzit dangling from a suddenly taller teenager, has become a surprisingly accurate global barometer. From the marble synagogues…
