Simon Kuper

Thursday, 29 May, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How Paris fell for football

The city was once too snooty for football — no longer

Thursday, 22 May, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How to be a great thinker

Seven habits of highly intelligent people

Wednesday, 21 May, 2025

Special ReportFT Wealth: May

Meet the insurgent economists promoting a global wealth tax

Gabriel Zucman is leading a movement for billionaires to pay at least 2 per cent of their net worth each year

Tuesday, 20 May, 2025

FT SeriesHTSI’s top stories – from a hot new dining destination in Paris to a pilgrimage to Patagonia

Le Grand Café: inside the hottest new brasserie in Paris

The Grand Palais’ monumental restaurant wants to recapture the magic of the belle époque. Has it worked?

Monday, 19 May, 2025

FT Globetrotter

Clay time: Simon Kuper’s ultimate guide to Roland-Garros

Everything you need to know about this glorious Grand Slam tournament, from its often dark history to tickets and where to eat and drink

Thursday, 15 May, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How China caught up with Silicon Valley

US tech moguls used to see China as a production hub. Now some are buying slices of its technological future

Thursday, 15 May, 2025

Special ReportThe Business of Football

Injury time — the hidden shift in player workload

Footballers may not be playing more games, but their time on the pitch has become far more demanding

Thursday, 8 May, 2025

FT MagazineUS universities

The case for universities

Institutions everywhere are in crisis, but they will survive

Thursday, 1 May, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Wartime trauma endures through generations

The political impacts of the second world war may be fading, but the personal toll is not so easily erased

Thursday, 24 April, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

The inarguable case for banning social media for teens

A large consensus is forming, not before time

Wednesday, 23 April, 2025

FT Globetrotter

How to be a digital nomad in Paris

Working remotely from the French capital can be a delight — but it does have its snags. Here’s everything you need to know to set up shop successfully

Thursday, 17 April, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Americans, it’s time to move to Europe

Europe outdoes the US on the key metrics of a good 21st-century life

Thursday, 10 April, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

A new who’s who of the global elites

They dominate the countries that account for more than half of global GDP — but who are they?

Thursday, 3 April, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Donald Trump vs the universities: how far will it go?

Former Columbia president Lee Bollinger wants US institutions to unite and fight the assault in court

Thursday, 27 March, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Can France really lead ‘the little west’?

As America retreats, Paris dreams of bringing the ‘grande nation’ out of retirement

Thursday, 20 March, 2025

Life & Arts

Why did businesspeople back Trump?

Many imagined someone in their own hard-nosed image

Thursday, 13 March, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Doge’s ‘villain’ fantasy is wrong about public service

Most choose to do it because the job matters

Wednesday, 12 March, 2025

InterviewBooks

Writer Didier Eribon: ‘My mother was unhappy her whole life’

The French author took longer to come out as working-class than as gay. His newly translated memoir confronts poverty and racism in the milieu he fled

Thursday, 6 March, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Return of the two Europes

Donald Trump’s turn to Moscow is restoring the geography of the cold war

Thursday, 27 February, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Is it the end for hanging out?

Recent trends have combined to worsen public spaces. Happily, we can do better

Thursday, 20 February, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Goodbye to the good guy

Donald Trump is the first US president to voice a pessimistic worldview

Thursday, 13 February, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Can Europe get over its break-up with the US?

Divorce sucks but could be a chance to restart from a better place

Thursday, 6 February, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

America the apex predator sharpens its teeth

Who’s eating who in the new geopolitical food chain

Thursday, 30 January, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

The political cult of the entrepreneur

Is what’s good for America’s richest men also good for America?

Thursday, 23 January, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

What is genocide?

And what I learnt from my great-uncle Leo’s attempt to answer