World Series 2023

Phillies Fever, or How a Mediocre Baseball Team Became a Geopolitical Barometer By Marisol Vargas, Senior Correspondent in Exile Philadelphia—A city whose founding myth involves Benjamin Franklin electrocuting himself for sport—has once again turned its annual nervous breakdown into global spectacle. The Phillies, a baseball franchise whose last championship predates TikTok, Brexit, and most of…