Global Dispatch: How the NYT Connections Puzzle for Sept 19 Quietly Mirrors a World on Tilt
From the vantage point of a crumbling café terrace overlooking Sarajevo’s Miljacka River—where bullet holes have been artfully rebranded as “heritage texture”—I opened the New York Times “Connections” puzzle for September 19. The grid blinked back at me like a smug digital consul, confident that four tidy categories could encapsulate a planet currently busy tearing…