Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 19 March, 2025

Saturday, 15 March, 2025

Life & Arts

The bright side of a transatlantic rift

Culturally, it’s not the worst thing if Europe and America have less to do with each other

Wednesday, 12 March, 2025

US politics & policy

Recession will not make Trump change course

A president who can’t run again is freer from public opinion than business seems to realise

Saturday, 8 March, 2025

Life & Arts

The pandemic that didn’t change the world

It is hard for a journalist to accept, but almost all events are ephemeral

Wednesday, 5 March, 2025

European economy

Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state

There is no way of defending the continent without cuts to social spending

Saturday, 1 March, 2025

Life & Arts

How France got America right in the end

Britain and Germany were too close to the US to see it straight

Wednesday, 26 February, 2025

UK foreign policy

The Tories discover that Britain is located in Europe

The lesson of this world-changing month is that geography matters — despite what the Brexit campaign claimed

Saturday, 22 February, 2025

Life & Arts

The anti-woke overcorrection is here

Conservatives are mistaking public dislike of the cultural left for enthusiasm for the opposite dogma

Saturday, 15 February, 2025

Life & Arts

Michelin and the return of deference

The more information there is in the world, the more people crave guidance

Wednesday, 12 February, 2025

US trade

Tariffs won’t bring back America’s unipolar moment

Trade is wrongly blamed for the relative decline of the US

Saturday, 8 February, 2025

Life & Arts

Tech vs finance: the social wars

No longer the most powerful profession, finance still provides better company

Wednesday, 5 February, 2025

Donald Trump

The deceptively negotiable Donald Trump

The tariff row is further indication that he is quick to quarrel but also quick to settle

Saturday, 1 February, 2025

Life & Arts

The revenge of the Mediterranean

The future of the continent will be shaped in the once-mocked south

Wednesday, 29 January, 2025

Populism

American and European populism don’t mix

Elon Musk will find the European right more statist than some progressives at home

Saturday, 25 January, 2025

Life & Arts

The revolt against over-management

In politics, media and sport, the advantages of looseness are becoming clear

Wednesday, 22 January, 2025

US presidential election 2024

The strange liberal nonchalance about Trump’s return

Having supposedly worried too much about him last time, people are overcorrecting

Saturday, 18 January, 2025

Life & Arts

Liberalism’s quiet victories

Against religion, against de-growth, against a pandemic, modernity endures

Wednesday, 15 January, 2025

UK economy

Britain should stop pretending it wants more economic growth

Almost everyone in politics has something they prioritise over it

Saturday, 11 January, 2025

Life & Arts

The strange world of the Euro-Gulf

The entwinement of Europe and the Arabian peninsula is ever tighter, and ever more improbable

Wednesday, 8 January, 2025

Geopolitics

Pity the middle-sized nations of the world

Small countries have the best outcomes, while the few giants shape the globe

Wednesday, 1 January, 2025

US politics & policy

Things have to get worse to get better

Voters can’t be sold on change until their nation is in acute trouble

Wednesday, 18 December, 2024

Populism

Economics can’t explain all the anger of voters

If it did, the US should have much healthier politics than Europe

Wednesday, 11 December, 2024

Geopolitics

The western myth of the ‘guy we can do business with’

Assad, Putin, Gaddafi — the free world too often gets its hopes up about despots

Saturday, 7 December, 2024

Life & Arts

Merkel-worship was liberalism at its worst

Fans of the former German chancellor should be contrite — even if she isn’t

Wednesday, 4 December, 2024

US politics & policy

America’s nightmare is two feral parties

The Democrats might decide that playing by the rules has got them nowhere