The Ukraine Safari

Peaceniks argue that Russia needs a victory or concession that will allow it to 'save face.'
17 October 2022

Can India’s Oldest Party Reinvent Itself?

For the first time in nearly 25 years, Congress will elect a president who is not a member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
16 October 2022

Liz Truss vs the Bank of England

Unless Truss reverses more of the tax cuts or introduces policies to protect pensioners and mortgage borrowers, turmoil in the UK market will not end soon.
10 October 2022

Why Populists Don’t Concede

Populist losers are more likely than not to cry fraud, because the entire basis of their appeal lies in the claim that they, and only they, represent “the real people.”
9 October 2022

Women, Life, Freedom, and the Left

We in the West have no right to treat Iran as a country that is desperately trying to catch up with us.
5 October 2022

Russia, Iran, and the Perils of Post-Autocracy

While these regimes have no real future, there is no clear and institutionally viable alternative to replace them.
5 October 2022

India’s long infatuation with Russia must end

Against the backdrop of China-Russia ties growing stronger, India must urgently review its geopolitical options.
19 September 2022

Ukraine Is Palestine, Not Israel

By treating Israel’s colonisation of Palestine as a defensive struggle, Ukraine is validating its senseless aggression.
17 September 2022

The irreversibility of globalisation

Politicians, media commentators, and economists have been far too hasty in predicting the demise of globalisation.
9 September 2022

Ukraine’s Tale of Two Colonisations

More is at stake in Ukraine than many commentators seem to appreciate. In a world beset by the effects of climate change, fertile land will be an increasingly valuable asset.
31 August 2022

Degeneracy, Depravity, and the New Right

The mundane origin of the Kosovo crisis shows how easily a spark can be fanned into a conflagration.
25 August 2022

Three globalisation shocks could hurt China and help India

The global shocks have proven to be particularly damaging for China because they have come on top of an ongoing, secular loss of competitiveness.
20 August 2022

What the 'Woke' Left and the Alt-Right Share

Western political correctness (“wokeness”) has displaced class struggle, producing a liberal elite that claims to protect threatened racial and sexual minorities in order to divert attention from its members’ own economic and political power. At the same time, this lie allows alt-right populists to present themselves as defenders of “real” people against corporate and “deep state” elites, even though they, too, occupy positions at the commanding heights of economic and political power.
4 August 2022

A diaspora is a terrible thing to waste

There have been diasporas ever since the Old Testament, and, leaving aside their tragic nature, no two mass exoduses have been alike.
30 July 2022

America’s dangerous descent into violence

It will take the kind of courage shown by former slaves in the face of Jim Crow and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War.
22 July 2022

The Betrayal of the Left

The left should maintain solidarity with those who resist aggressive, arbitrary power, whether in Ukraine or elsewhere.
18 July 2022

Are the BRICS breaking up?

The recent virtual BRICS summit, which brought together the heads of state and government of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, was interesting as much for what did not happen as for what did.
8 July 2022

How the US could lose the new cold war

The United States appears to have entered a new cold war with both China and Russia.
24 June 2022

Today’s Crises Are Different

Just as one generation gives way to the next, global challenges are superseded by a new cohort.
17 June 2022

Getting Deglobalisation Right

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) first meeting in more than two years was markedly different from the many previous Davos conferences.
2 June 2022