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Book Review: Joe Biden’s First Term and the ‘West Wing’ Fantasy of American Politics

August 31, 2023

In “The Last Politician,” Franklin Foer presents the first half of Biden’s presidency as a series of made-for-television moments meant to inspire doubters and assuage critics. How will the history of the Biden administration be written: as the turning point when America began to heal or as a hiatus between moments of deadlock and adversity? Franklin Foer’s “The Last Politician,” an account of Biden’s first two years in office, is

The west has failed to keep its promises on aid

August 28, 2023

US and EU attempts to respond to China’s Belt and Road Initiative have fallen dismally short Read the full article at The Financial Times

Now is a time of tough choices — including on the 2% inflation target

July 29, 2023

That goal should be subject to public scrutiny and judged against the demands of the moment Read the full article at The Financial Times

Europe should not be too relaxed this summer as big challenges await

July 27, 2023

From migration to Ukraine, Europe’s future worry list runs much deeper than fiscal rules Read the full article at The Financial Times

Europe’s Energy Crisis That Isn’t

April 5, 2023

American critics chastise Europeans’ rejection of fossil fuels. But Europe is winning the bet. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has led to a reassertion of national security concerns in every facet of Western countries’ policy. The most obvious aspect is military security, with the United States and the Europeans ramping up ammunition production and wrangling over tank deliveries. But as far as Europe is concerned, the even more

We are living through a trillion-dollar rebalancing

March 31, 2023

Beneath a veil of silence, a hugely dramatic and powerful episode of financial repression is ongoing Read the full article in The Financial Times.

The west’s limited support for Ukraine fails to measure up

February 24, 2023

Europe and the US may sincerely want Kyiv to prevail over Moscow but they are failing to match ends with means. Read the full article at Financial Times

Three ways to read the ‘deglobalisation’ debate

January 28, 2023

Proponents of business as usual and the new cold warriors are too confident of their ability to predict the future. Read the full article in the Financial Times

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Europe’s Energy Crisis That Isn’t

April 5, 2023

We are living through a trillion-dollar rebalancing

March 31, 2023

Beneath a veil of silence, a hugely dramatic and powerful episode of financial repression is ongoing Read the full article in The Financial Times.

The west’s limited support for Ukraine fails to measure up

February 24, 2023

Europe and the US may sincerely want Kyiv to prevail over Moscow but they are failing to match ends with means. Read the full article at Financial Times

Three ways to read the ‘deglobalisation’ debate

January 28, 2023

Proponents of business as usual and the new cold warriors are too confident of their ability to predict the future. Read the full article in the Financial Times

The Hidden History of the World’s Top Offshore Cryptocurrency Tax Haven

January 15, 2023

The Bahamas represents how global capitalism can go very right, and very wrong, at exactly the same time. On Jan. 3, as Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty in New York on charges stemming from the

An arms race on industrial policy is the last thing Europe needs

December 22, 2022

Making a fuss over America’s Inflation Reduction Act is gratuitous and counterproductive. Read the full article at the Financial Times

American hubris

December 9, 2022

The US is addicted to greatness – and haunted by its loss. Great powers, both past and present, are haunted by three interconnected preoccupations: they are tempted by a sense of national superiority and claims

Regulators can’t keep turning a blind eye to crypto craziness

November 25, 2022

Stopping a hyped-up project that promises to disrupt the status quo requires decisiveness and courage Read the full article at the Financial Times

The G-20 Proved It’s Our World Government

November 17, 2022

At a time of global conflict, world powers showed that cooperation can actually work. Ahead of time, the script for the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, seemed to write itself. A grouping conceived in the

The European Project Is Now at the Mercy of the Weather

November 2, 2022

This winter, Europe may be facing a crisis without any clear solution. Right now, the sobering truth is that the future of Europe hinges on the weather. It seems absurd. But whether the winter ahead

Welcome to the world of the polycrisis

October 28, 2022

Today disparate shocks interact so that the whole is worse than the sum of the parts Read the full article at the Financial Times

Bruno Latour and the philosophy of life: For the late French intellectual in an age of ecological crisis it was crucial to understand ourselves as rooted beings.

October 17, 2022

As Bruno Latour confided to Le Monde earlier this year in one of his final interviews, philosophy was his great intellectual love. But across his long and immensely fertile intellectual life, Latour pursued that love