Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 31 May, 2025

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

Wednesday, 19 March, 2025

EU defence

Europe is only half-awake from its long sleep

Talk of Donald Trump bringing the continent together is absurdly premature

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