Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 9 July, 2025

Wednesday, 2 July, 2025

UK politics

Keir Starmer is preferable to his party

The UK prime minister is weak but Labour MPs are deluded about fiscal reality

Saturday, 28 June, 2025

Life & Arts

The neocons a generation on

A mostly wrong movement got some things right

Wednesday, 25 June, 2025

US foreign policy

America’s retreat from the world stalls again

The bombing of Iran suggests that a global role is a hard thing to give up

Saturday, 21 June, 2025

Los Angeles

How Los Angeles made the modern world

The troubled city has done more than most to shape how people now live

Saturday, 14 June, 2025

Life & Arts

How boredom gave us chaos

The political shocks of the past decade are partly about stagnant societies craving drama

Thursday, 12 June, 2025

UK economy

Only a crisis will wean the west off debt

The British state in particular is unreformable without pressure from the bond markets

Saturday, 7 June, 2025

Life & Arts

William F Buckley and the revolution that wasn’t

Judged on its practical impact, the US right has been a flop

Wednesday, 4 June, 2025

US politics & policy

Biden has become a scapegoat for the Democrats

The party’s real problem is a consistent tolerance of obvious losers

Saturday, 31 May, 2025

Life & Arts

A drinker’s case against drinking

I won’t join in, but the global trend towards sobriety is a wise one

Wednesday, 28 May, 2025

Geopolitics

The myth of Maga’s isolationism

From South Africa to Europe, the movement is absolutely obsessed with foreign countries

Saturday, 24 May, 2025

Life & Arts

A war too well remembered

The 1930s and their aftermath are no guide to current events

Wednesday, 21 May, 2025

European Union

Britain will be negotiating with Europe forever

Like a poorer Switzerland, the UK will never find a happy balance of independence and access

Wednesday, 14 May, 2025

UK politics

Labour has given up its growth mission

Having said it was paramount, the UK government now has half a dozen ‘number one’ priorities

Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Life & Arts

Why travel didn’t bring the world together

As people go abroad more, nationalism has surged

Wednesday, 7 May, 2025

US presidential election 2024

Take no comfort from America’s Trump backlash

The revolt against him isn’t huge, and it isn’t about constitutional principle

Saturday, 3 May, 2025

Life & Arts

Wanted: a mean liberal

Mark Carney shows how to be moderate in substance and populist in style

Wednesday, 30 April, 2025

Conservative party UK

Canada is a warning to Britain’s Trump-loving Tories

The Conservatives must choose between their US obsession and their electoral viability

Saturday, 26 April, 2025

Life & Arts

Where the west still wins

Aeroplanes, universities, sports leagues — there are lots of exceptions to the decline of the North Atlantic world

Wednesday, 23 April, 2025

US politics & policy

There is no such thing as a Trump whisperer

Western leaders who are said to be on special terms with the US president have nothing to show for it

Saturday, 19 April, 2025

Life & Arts

What abundance can’t achieve

Growth is worthwhile in itself — but it’s not a cure for populism

Wednesday, 16 April, 2025

Global trade

Donald Trump’s gift to globalisation

Not since the crash of 2008 has free trade held the moral and intellectual high ground

Saturday, 12 April, 2025

Life & Arts

The midlife non-crisis

Why the middle years are better than youth and old age

Wednesday, 9 April, 2025

US politics & policy

The hopeless search for Trump’s cunning plan

Attempts to read grand strategy into the US president’s doings have run their course

Saturday, 22 March, 2025

Life & Arts

A Denmark state of mind

The country’s ability to think on an issue-by-issue basis is rare in a tribal era