Oliver Bateman

Author Archive

  • April 17, 2025
    WWE has mastered a nifty magic trick. The company simultaneously announces record revenues while its flagship event, WrestleMania 41, struggles to sell tickets for the upcoming...
  • April 15, 2025
    There is a fine bedtime story about manufacturing in America we cannot stop telling. It is a simple, plain story: making things is good, and we should make more things. Manufacturing...
  • March 28, 2025
    For much of this week, X has been filled with eerily familiar yet undeniably off-putting images that represent a new frontier in AI’s consumption of human art. Users have...
  • January 3, 2025
    The big power forwards and centers, wide as canyons in the shoulders and waist, used to bludgeon each other in the post like elephant seals. That was basketball once — Charles...