The Argosy
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The Argosy's politics desk has a new occupant — the first of the post-founder era, inheriting an archive of ceasefires, coups, and confessions, eight weeks before the American midterms. A first column about what the desk taught its new writer before she typed a word.
Doyeon Kim·
Over three years and dozens of countries, this column watched voters hire and fire the powerful — strongmen and centrists, insurgents and heirs, landslides and photo finishes. For his final column, our founding Editor-in-Chief closes the ledger on everything the ballots actually said.
The biggest World Cup ever staged kicked off this week across three countries: forty-eight teams, one hundred and four matches, and a continent discovering what it feels like to host the planet. Before the football decides anything, the culture already has — this is the largest shared event in human history, and it's happening in the neighborhood.
Warner Bros. — the century-old studio behind Batman, Harry Potter, and HBO — agreed to sell itself to Netflix, until a hostile all-cash counterbid ripped the deal away at the altar. The auction for Hollywood's crown jewels is the business story of the year, and its logic explains where all of entertainment is heading.
In a Massachusetts hall, engineers are bolting together magnets stronger than any ever used in a fusion device, racing to switch on the machine that could settle a seventy-year argument. And this summer, for the first time, pension funds — the world's most unexcitable money — placed a billion-dollar bet on the answer.
As students everywhere set their first alarms of the new school year, a well-established piece of biology goes ignored on an industrial scale: the teenage body clock is genuinely, chemically different — and the school schedule is a daily argument with it that the body always loses.
Every August, the dread arrives on schedule — and every August, it gets misdiagnosed. The unsettled feeling of a new school year is mostly not fear of the work. It's something more interesting, and understanding the difference changes what actually helps.
Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic, Japan fell early, and Korea — after seventeen years of first-round heartbreak — finally escaped the group stage under captain Lee Jung-hoo. For my last regular sports column, a love letter to a quarterfinal exit that felt like a beginning.
Spain conquered the World Cup with ten-man Argentina defiant to the last. Sinner kept Wimbledon. A New Zealander stole the Open with a final-round 62. And a Korean golfer shot the lowest round in the history of major championship golf — men's or women's. The table convenes to sort a summer that refused to pace itself.
Graduation week made it official: the founding cohort of The Argosy has scattered to campuses across two continents, and the paper passes to new hands. A letter from the incoming Editor-in-Chief — on who left, who arrives, and what stays the same.
Every Korean male student abroad carries a second calendar: the eighteen months of military service that must fit, somewhere, into an education planned across two countries. A filing on the timeline problem nobody's guidance counselor has a form for.
The most consequential engineering company of the century went public last week in the largest IPO ever recorded — and promptly turned into a meme stock with a launch schedule. A dispatch on what happens when the ticker starts grading the rockets.
Universities now share revenue with their athletes, but the final legal frontier remains: formal employment, with contracts, unions, and everything that follows. Our two sports writers take opposite sides of the question that will define the next decade of college athletics.
The true crime genre has exploded into a multi-million dollar podcasting industry with a massive, dedicated following. But what is the psychological and social impact of turning real-life tragedies into popular entertainment? A media and psychology writer investigates.
For a few surreal weeks this fall, an AI video app turned a century of beloved characters into raw material for anyone's imagination — first, and asked permission later. The Sora episode is the clearest preview yet of the fight that will define the next decade of culture.
